December 2010
2 posts
Practicing Waiting: How I Deal with Loss at...
I’m new to this whole celebrating Jesus’ arrival at Christmas thing. But I love it. And I love the practice of waiting encouraged during Advent, embracing the tension of almost but not yet.
I read a friend’s Facebook status yesterday about how hard the holidays are this year, her first without her dad, and I sighed, knowing how many hearts break during this season of family...
The Rescue
Wednesday I took the girls to the children’s museum in Austin. At one of the exhibits kids are encouraged to draw a picture of their “future dream.” My kids can’t really draw well yet, so their dreams looked a little ambiguous.
I drew my favorite future dream: Jesus coming back, that moment when God steps in to once and for all save His people from everything bad. It was,...