advent 2021, LOVE
Two weeks until Christmas you guys! The older I get, the more affection I have for the essence of every holiday. The more I sense that every good tradition is good because it is soaked in Love. I actively embrace…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Category faith-ish
another post about hope for advent 2021
Hey friends, hello and thanks for reading along here. Thanks, also, for so many comments and private messages after my most recent post about hope. Apparently lots of us are grappling with hard feelings right now, and it is wonderful…
advent 2021, choosing HOPE as a strategy
Earlier today I was about 2,000 words deep in an overly effusive essay about hope. This is the first week of Advent, after all, a few days meant to celebrate the virtue. I was excited to share some stories and…
duck tales, a-woo-hoo
Between what ages would a person be to have read the title of this blog post as a cartoon jingle, and what after school snack are you now craving? On the first brutally cold morning of this artic storm in…
“I knew it would happen today!”
Three seperate times this week, a question has found its way into my view, and I cannot resist exploring it with you: What if you woke up to discover that all of your prayers had been answered? One version of…
small changes, big miracles
Even before Labor Day weekend, when Oklahoma was still hot and scratchy and humid, when we were still slow paced and sticking to ourselves in that humid, chlorine scented, bare ankles kind of way, the wild sumacs turned a purplish…