Miscellaneous

October 11, 2019Liz.W I’m linking up with Five Minute Friday, freewriting on the one word-prompt: “Listen”. Thank you, Friends, for joining us here. Listen, to the sound of the waves washing over the shore.  How they come in ripples. Slow at first, and then the crash. The way they pound. The way they shimmer and sparkle. Your eyes can catch…

September 13, 2019Liz.W The husband shares here his reflection on what it means to live contented  — which, as a guy (or any woman!), is a challenge to curate — and how that one little truth can  powerfully transform every aspect of our lives….*thank.you, husband* 1 Timothy 6:6-10 –  “But godliness with contentment is a…

September 12, 2019Liz.W Dear My Beautiful, Precious Young Friend, Today you turn 13 — and what a significant and special milestone in your life, this adolescent space of yours,  so *thank.you* for allowing me to write, for giving me your heart. Firstly, I’m so sorry that your birthday arrives after such recent sorrow. I too lost…

August 15, 2019Liz.W I penned these words for you… For you who feel the call to create, the deep stirring to soar, yet struggle with the expression of that brave, bold step.  You are beautiful, right there in all the stretching —loved right there in all these learning. With you — together. There are two ways…

June 26, 2019Liz.W So it’s been a beautiful and bountiful year — but the clock keeps ticking, and the calendar keeps filling. Even the work comes piling right back up every single day. A year can feel so fast, and yourself going so slow, but there’s this extraordinary beauty in waking up to just be and slowing down to just see: to…

June 25, 2019Liz.W July is fast approaching and we’re midway into the new year! Except that… it’s not that new a year anymore! 2019 turns out a beautiful, bountiful year — but having only 6 more months before we turn into another new year? — I’d like to crush more goals and tick off more chores, please….

When You Desire to Be Big, Liked & Followed — on Social Media, Platforms & Influence June 9, 2019Liz.W To love the life God has given us isn’t a matter of collecting the laudation and likes of men, but finding security in smallness, knowing you are seen in hiddenness, and rising in service with greatness.  Yeah, tell me — on roads winding…

April 5, 2019Liz.W “This is absurd…” He says it weakly. Almost like a whisper, almost all to himself. He sighs, and shrugs, then shakes his head. ”How can someone with my kinda past, and my sorta losses…?” he stops his sentence midway, looking down. I nodded. I know his question — how can someone who’s mucked it…

March 18, 2019Liz.W I don’t exactly remember how it happened — Or what he actually said that had ticked me off … But that summer afternoon when it hit 39 degrees, and the babies were still young, and my hormones juvenile, I remember clearly losing my cool. We were headed to the beach somewhere when he made…

January 19, 2019Liz.W “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines,though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” (Habakkuk 3:17-19)…