Tag: family

  • The Art of an Unlonely Holiday: Welcoming Others to Your Table

    I’m not sure who first penned the words “Loneliness feels louder in the season of celebration,” but as I edge closer to another decade of life, I find them to be increasingly true. There are empty place settings for loved ones who didn’t make it to another holiday. There are broken relationships, unmet expectations, lingering…

  • Essential Summer Car Kit

    Sometime around 2:30 a.m. I heard the sound every parent learns to dread.  My daughter was vomiting and we most definitely had a 7+ hour road trip back home ahead of us that morning. I felt the panic start to rise. I’ve never had to travel with a child sick of the stomach flu, let…

  • Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2025

    “Every day in each inch of space, each rhythm of time, each practice of love, we have the chance to join God in coming home, in living so that we make a home of this broken and beautiful world all over again. Love is enfleshed in the meals we make, the rooms we fill, the…

  • Adding Delight to Your Home This Winter

    “It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought that this must be a little like heaven, where the weary are at rest.” Laura Ingalls Wilder | The Long Winter The snow is steadily falling on this January day here in the Midwest. I’m reading…