[christmas.card]
This years Christmas card. For your enjoyment.
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We’re driving to church yesterday and my husband says, “I feel like I’m frayed at the edges, and any second I could unravel.” I’m wiping away tears as I nod. Yes, this is life. You walk and follow and sometimes God leads down some pretty dark and wandering roads. But then we’re at church, so…
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[arrival]
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[powdered.sugar]
Thanksgiving is coming. Pumpkin. Squash. Carrots. All those root vegetables that make their appearance when the weather turns cold. When the chill starts seeping into the house… I bake. When the first frost comes, I make bread. When the first snow comes, I make snow cake. Then cinnamon rolls. And pumpkin muffins. And sweet potato…
infertility {week of thanks}
Every year I wonder if it will be the last. There is always that stirring hope, that longing. Perhaps this will be my last year of childlessness. Perhaps by next Christmas I will have a baby. Perhaps… And yet, Thanksgiving is here and this “thorn”, as the Apostle Paul would say, is still in my side….
This made me grin. Particularly the part about the cows in the barn. 😀 Happy New Year and thanks for being a part of YLCF!! 🙂