Lent is always a good time to get some reading in. To spend time reflecting with poetry, and prose, art and bread, crayons and finger paints. Here are a few books that might be just the thing you are looking for to help guide your Lenten practice this year... The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon Under the Fig Tree by Roger Hutchison Wisdom in the Waiting by Phillis ... View Post
The Gift of a Messy Home
It seems to be a universal truth that no matter how many books one has, ones precious child will fixate on just a few and make you read those and ONLY those books until they know it by heart and you want to stab your eyes out. And while I did get REALLY tired of reading Seseme Streets Big and Small and Elmo's Wild Wild West, there were a couple that I never tired of reading. And one of ... View Post
Summer Reading
Here it is. This summers reading stack. As is typical it is a random mix of many genres with no real common thread. Just a mix of things just for fun and things for my vocation and things I have been longing to read. Almost all of the fiction are books passed on to me by reader friends, otherwise I would be broke right now. The only thing I am missing is a really great biography. I read a lot of ... View Post
Seamless Faith – A Book for Families and a Giveaway for You
Just as a I am celebrating a year of having my first book in the world, Traci Smith is celebrating her book, Seamless Faith's birth! A few months ago I got my first look at this great resource for families and I fell in love with this lovely guidebook for families. The sections of the book are: Traditions for Every Day Ceremonies for Marking Life’s Transitions Ceremonies for Difficult ... View Post
Make Do {and make lovely} Monday – #C21Denver Big Book Giveaway
The family and I are taking advantage of this three day weekend and have fled to the mountain for a little bitty bit of r&r. In place of a regular Make-Do Monday, I am instead hosting this giveaway for books by authors who presented at the Christianity 21 Conference last weekend. There will be one winner per book. To enter just leave a comment at the bottom of this post telling me which book ... View Post
On the nightstand
Jesus Freak I am barely into this book and already I have filled a handfull of notecards with quotes and passages. It is challenging and encouraging all at once. I want to inhale it. Prodigal Summer A new all-time favorite. Maybe in my top 5 favorite fiction books ever. Right now Sweet Man is reading it, and when he is through we are going to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle ... View Post