writing when inspired about the often overlooked
The setting: My son and his wife live in an OLD stone farm house. Â In the back yard is an old root cellar, a weird focal point to the back yard. The kids love to climb over it. (for the grandmas reading this, the door is secure!) Tonight it’s back yard Graduation Party for…
Lord, as our lives dip, turn, rise, flip, and roll Help us to remember . . . You have the controls of our lives. There is no problem with Your skill as an operator. Our response is to simply rest in this confidence as we move through the days . . . weeks . ….
 ( I wrote this last summer, June, 24, 2010) Today I see them . . .     the baby ducks. I look for them every year, It’s already June And I have been wondering where they are. Maybe it’s been too cold – Too. . . . . something? And I am surprised by how …
 from www.ToddHiestand.com – August 2007 post. Thought provoking and an important concept. August 16, 2007 Tonight, my parents hosted a little get together for all of their friends (many were friends who have known me since I was just a little weasel) to come and welcome Mason into our family. It really was a…
This was written September 17, 2005, about 6 weeks before my brother died. Dear God: The fear that plays around the edges of my heart is that this enjoyment of scripture, this new way of studying Your word will fade away (reading for the pause, writing to You, God and being quiet as I…
 From my May 2008 album:  Mason, how you love your blankets . . . all five of them! The colorful one is your “Guatemala blanket” and the blue/yellow/white on is the one I made for we were waiting for you to come home to us. When you wake up, you point and say “it” for…
I created this card to send to my Grandchildren. If they lived next door like in the olden days when family’s grew up together, I’d take them for walks and we’d look at God’s big creative world together, but since we don’t, …….. Created for my Grandchildren on May 11, 2010 I have a friend who…
A couple weeks ago, on April 28 I spent time with my mentor/spiritual director friend, Shirley and we celebrated 5 years of friendship. Our first visit to Botanic Gardens when I was deeply hurting, was 5 years ago! I wrote the following about a year ago and sent it to her. And I share…
I created and framed these pics for my mom for Mothers’ Day, 2006, 5 months after she had lost her third child and I had lost my last sibling: “The world loves closure, loves a thing that can, as they say,be gotten through. This is why it comes as a great surprise to find…
       I posted a few pages the last couple of days, but it really reads best all at one time – very short to “page” through. Two years ago this week, I was very stressed and usure of the decisions we were making concerning my parent’s care. Galen asked me…