Look and See + Homemade Brown Sugar
My husband and I have been reading through the Bible separately, yet together, for a while now. We each read at our own pace, then once a week take...
Category: Hope and Joy
Free To Celebrate {The Grove: Party}
Picture this. It is a cold December night in Berlin. Suddenly, as if on cue, people stream out from every building onto the streets. Most of them are armed...
Party to Celebrate Community
When’s the last time you went to a great party? I mean, a really great party? One you spent weeks preparing for – thinking of what to wear, picking...
May You Receive the Gift of Jesus {The Grove: The Gift}
John 1:16-18 From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through...
Merry Christmas, Velvet Ashes
Luke 1:78-79 Because of God's tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in...
Forging Team Traditions
Some of my favorite traditions while living overseas started in the darkness, a desperate clinging to hope when things were hard. They were started because I needed a way...
Boldly I Pray
I had the amazing privilege of meeting Helen Jean Parks while living in Dallas, Texas, and I hope you will enjoy reading a bit of her story and her...
Dancing in the Darkness {The Grove: Dance}
A year ago I found myself in a deep well. This well was so deep I couldn’t see the sky. Even if I could have seen it, I wouldn’t...
It All Matters
If someone came to me with the request “teach me to dance” I’d have nothing. Nothing. I can’t do the two-step, the tango, the twist. None of them. I’d...
Living an Opposite Kind of Life
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate...
