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Tuesday Breakfast Notes #35
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #35
Welcome to this 35th Tuesday Breakfast Note…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #34
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #34
I found these verses on a day when I was feeling uncertain of my skills as "mommy."…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #33
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #33
God does have a sense of humor, doesn’t He?…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #32
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #32
I have 3 plates hanging together on the wall as a decoration in our house…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #31
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #31
Do you ever have those mornings, where you wake up and your first thought is "Ok, here we go again"?…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #30
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #30
As of Monday at 2:55am, I am another year older…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #29
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #29
Some days, I lay in bed before I go to sleep and quietly ask myself "did we add to God's joy today?"…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #28
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #28
What kind of feelings come up when you look back on moments in your past?…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #27
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #27
I first came across this poem as a senior in high school, and it continues to come to mind every so often…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #26
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #26
I am so grateful God is writing the story of the Rader family…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #24
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #24
We had an 8am dentist appointment this morning. We were moving slow, but everyone had made it downstairs, eaten something, changed clothes and brushed teeth…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #22
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #22
This week is a big deal in Champaign County, Ohio; it’s the county fair! I grew up in 4H, where I have memories of success, and plenty of memories of failure…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #21
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #21
Do you recognize Sylvia’s box? It came just as expected on Sunday afternoon.
To Sylvia, this wasn’t just any old Amazon box. She had asked her daddy for an early birthday present. (Ok. She asked me too, but I made Stephen decide!) Those 2 whole days we made her wait were just excruciating…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #20
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #20
My mom worked in the school system; so I kind of knew better than to start asking how soon we had to go back to school. But I’m pretty sure I always asked about the start of school year around this time of summer anyway…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #19
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #19
This summer, I keep coming back to the wilderness. Or maybe I should say the wilderness keeps coming back to me?
It’s been in sermons. It’s been a topic shared by a favorite author (look up Hannah Brencher, if you’re interested). It’s in the daily verses on my phone. It was in a podcast this morning. A friend even texted to say it was being mentioned on the morning news…
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #18
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #18
As parents, it’s been Stephen and my job to try to teach our girls the practice and routine of prayer. At it’s core, prayer is communicating with God. At our house, we’ve been intentional in making prayer active, accessible, despite their age, and just a little fun.
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #17
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #17
Look at this silly Sylvia! Do feelings, or memories, rise up in your heart when you look at her, hung over in weariness and hunger? (She had spent the morning playing dolls with a friend; it's a hard life, right?)
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #16
Tuesday Breakfast Notes #16
Friday we brought home the prettiest yellow roses. Those pretty yellow roses came from the cemetery.
Last Monday, my great Aunt Zelpha, at 95 years old, went home to be with Jesus. The girls each carried around their rose they way they carried around their big question: “What is heaven like?”