Glancing Back & Leaning Forward
About Me On the Weekend
What makes my voice distinctive? What is the defining theme that shines through all I do? What is this thing being birthed in my heart? It’s with these questions in my mind that I took to writing my About page for this blog. I wanted to give those of you who do not know me … Read more
Just Launch: My Blog Gets a New Design
Yesterday you did not hear from me, and for good reason. I took my blogging time and dedicated it instead to the launching of a new design of the Under an Open Sky blog. I am so very happy to share the new look with you! (If you are reading this via an email link … Read more
Progressing or Arriving
This morning allow me to share one, single thought for us to ponder together: To prosper is to make steady progress in every area of your life. Today I am prospering. Not because my “To Do” list is done. Not because of achievement or destination. I am prospering because I am keeping my feet moving. … Read more
To You: My Leaders, My Followers and Me
Strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Hebrews 12:12-13 To you, my leaders Clear the path, make it straight, make it plain. Do you see us? We are following you. I am … Read more
The Honesty of Waking Thoughts
6 am “It is a sensitive time, this borderland between the long sleep of night and the immediacy of the day: one has been left behind, the other has not fully arrived. Ideas that have been at work in the mind may be clearer now than at any other time; but they are fragile, fleeting, … Read more
Be Kind to Thyself
{ photo credit } Weekend Thoughts This week marks the most blogging I’ve done in a long time! I began 31 Days to Glancing Back and Leaning Forward on Tuesday, along with the gang out at The Nester. I have loved writing my randomness all week. But this weekend, I am feeling my old friend, … Read more
The Day our Plumber Went to Jail
You can’t plan for this stuff, folks! And believe me, I’m a planner. After 9 months of planning, it was time to “birth” a new kitchen. It was labor time. We checked the budget, ordered cabinets, hired subs, sweet talked Daddy, and took time off work. We were ready to demolish the old and bring … Read more
Swirl With It
{ photo credit } Swirl might be a good theme for my year. The best laid plans, and all that. Life is big, its grand, with too many moving parts to grasp in my hands. I imagine myself a conductor over my own life. Directing, determining, controlling. It’s my illusion. Truth is, I’m a tumbleweed flopping, … Read more
Mourning the Invisible (or Fantasizing about Stealing Your Children)
** Sorry for the dramatic title. I’ve been told by certain sisters of mine that I’m a dramatic person. I don’t think it was meant as a compliment. ** Well, we might as well start with the elephant in the room. (The elephant in my head, at least.) This year saw a moment of great joy … Read more
31 Days of Glancing Back and Leaning Forward
A year ago I sat in Applebees with dear friends and accidentally agreed to start this blog that very week. Happily, I did. I was snookered into taking the secret vision in my heart and bringing it into the light of day, unprepared, inexperienced and squinting in the sun. And now here it is, one … Read more
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