Finally, Something I Already Do

This quest toward simple has been more than a little frustrating already!  In fact, I have to admit that as we barely enter the second month of the year, I’ve already contemplated changing my one word to NAP. If you’ve been following along the past few Wednesdays, I’ve been sharing […]

Apparently my but is really big

It’s almost noon and I am struggling through this post … still. Like I have been struggling through the three drafts I have begun and discarded.   My quest for simple is apparently going to be a little more complex than I had expected. I suppose I simple-mindedly had believed that […]

It Always Starts Small

Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals.  They forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt.   They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them.   They provoked the Lord to anger.  ~ Judges […]

Why I Don’t Have a Mac Book

Last summer I read Simple Life: Time, Relationships, Money, God by Art and Thom Rainer.   Next I read Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt.   Then I read them both again.   And I re-read Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. […]

Pleasing Aromas

Leviticus has become one of the books I most enjoy studying and reading since I did B90Days last year.   I found myself fascinated by the many sacrifices and rituals necessary for restored relationship with God … and so thankful for the grace that now covers our sins and offers us […]

Simple Contentment

[I’m also writing at Scripture Dig on the Inward Disciplines and at MOD Squad on Overflowing Goodness today.  Please visit me there as well!] Over the past few weeks, my blogging has been, shall we say, sporadic?   But the counting?  Oh the counting has continued.  Blessings and joys, gifts and […]