Let me be very clear: I am no minimalist. I have a large house with lots of stuff (mostly books and toys). I fully recognize that I am abundantly blessed beyond all I deserve. And I love a clean and organized space. But I don’t spend a lot of time reading about or actively...
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Enough
In January, we hear a lot about resolutions and organizing and cutting back and losing weight and starting fresh and on and on and on. I’ve been thinking more about when it’s enough. When I am enough. When I have enough. Because I never feel like it is, I am, I do. Maybe you...
A Hard Christmas, Part 4: The Secret
I’ve been thinking about my last post. Christmas is hard when we don’t get what we want. It is. It’s hard and not fun, and we would be silly to pretend otherwise. But I wanted to clarify. The reality of a hard Christmas isn’t fun. And dealing with that has to be real or...
A Hard Christmas, Part 3
Timmy was just watching a little Christmas video (Why Do We Call It Christmas? from the folks at What’s in the Bible?). I wasn’t really paying much attention, so I have no idea what exactly the characters said. But suddenly he popped up and said, “Sometimes, you don’t get what you want for Christmas, right, Mom?”...
A Hard Christmas, Part 2
I didn’t really write my last post intending to write a whole series. But this morning, I was reading about the shepherds in Luke 2, and I noticed something. The Christmas story is full of … fear. Luke 1:12 – An angel appeared in the temple to Zechariah: “When Zechariah saw him, he was...