As I peer into the coming year, I
feel compelled to draw a circle around us – our home, our church, our city, our
state, our nation … and pray until. On this, the final day of two-thousand and
sixteen with the dawn of a brand new year upon us, can I be so bold as to urge
you, too, to do the same? Draw a circle
of your own and then pray for everything in it…and pray until.
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Monday, September 12, 2016
My Parenting Memoir, Please don't lick ______________. (Alternately Titled: I Might Regret Posting This Later)
I heard something said yesterday at church. In context, the person was speaking about now that you know Jesus, "how then will you live?" I liked that. It was good. Contemplative even. But then I got to thinking...in the context of child rearing, how then will you live?
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Parenthood
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Truth from the Trenches
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Dinner Tonight?
If you’re like me, the day after
Labor Day feels like the Mondayest Tuesday ever…so if you’re looking for a simple
meal for your crew, I’ve got one for you that won’t totally turn your kitchen
into a disaster.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Ministry of the Moment ::: Alternately Titled: I Think Jeff Would Call Me A Rookie...(I don't know if I believe it when people say it gets easier...)
You guys...I've literally worn my pajamas all day. ALL. DAY. LONG. I never do this. I'm usually the one marching around public mumbling to myself pajamas aren't pants, people! Granted, I didn't go into the general population today, but still. This is the stupor from which this post is coming to you...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Truth from the Trenches: Resting in the Waiting
Somedays I wake up plumb exhausted. I mean, before I’ve even rolled out of bed, I
can feel it. The truth is, it isn’t
simply body-tired…it’s that my heart is tired.
My soul is weary.
Maybe you’ve been here too?
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Faith
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Just Life
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Truth from the Trenches
Monday, August 22, 2016
My Kids Think Junk Mail Is Super Cool ... (And Other Curious Confessions)
So, I realized that there is a thread of seriousness to my
recent posts…and while that’s good and all, sometimes it’s important to
remember to come up for air. Perhaps
it’s because our life is (generally) anything but serious. Most days, the hardest thing we face is
whether anyone’s sock is crooked in their shoe. That and when the mailman is
coming because my kids think getting junk mail is a pretty big deal. They act like its Christmas or something. –we’ve
really gotta get out more – (Merp.)
I digress. Anyway, I have decided
to list a few confessions – ya’ know –
just to keep me humble and give me something to cringe about a few weeks from
now…
Friday, August 19, 2016
Life Has A Way of Unraveling (Part 2)
Sometimes you unexpectedly meet a person and you find
yourself face to face with what it means to be broken. This day, four years ago, I met our firstborn
son in a most unexpected way and since that time, brokenness has been my theme.
Life Has A Way of Unraveling (Part 1)
This is an excerpt of
what I wrote one year after Parker was born and buried. At the time I wrote this, I was carrying our
second child. This is part one.
Monday, July 25, 2016
Wholly Sure & Fully Holy
Before I had children, I didn’t
even know it was possible to love someone who threw up on your toothbrush. But in child-rearing, as in life, the
struggle is part of the story.
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Family
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Frustrations
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Current Situation
I’ll be brief because I’ve
been sick.
Friday, July 15, 2016
About Me
Because my sister likes what I wrote and because it took an obscene amount of time to find out how to actually edit the real About Me section...I decided it not only earned a prominent spot along the side of my blog home page, but that it also deserved it's very own special post. It's post No. 17 and, yes, I realize it's a couple of years in, but ya' know? Better late than never, right?!?
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Finding Yourself In The Real Deep End: On Epilepsy & God
If you follow me anywhere, facebook or real life, you know
that our little family has been in more hospitals and doctor appointments than
I’d like to admit. What you might not
know is that our lives today feel drastically different than they did just three
weeks ago. Over the course of four
months, a series of increasingly frightening episodes, several ambulance rides,
two neurologists, a mis-diagnosis, and one neurosurgeon, this chronicle of
events finally culminated in a four-day stay at Covenant Women’s and Children’s
pediatric ICU.
Monday, May 23, 2016
Leprechaun Tears: A Story of Age, Wisdom, & Walking Worthy
I work in the world of Foster
Care. It’s been almost a decade of my
professional life with a one-year, brief intermission wherein I stayed home to
care for our then-6-month-old-son. TEN
as in ONE-ZERO. This reality was driven
home this past week when I received an alumni newsletter and homecoming
invitation to my 10-year, class of 2006, college reunion.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Unbuttoned: The Soulful Work of Abiding
We unbutton a soul, because we know what we are made
of.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
But For God: A Message About Grace
Throughout the six months of our
time as an engaged couple, we made lots of plans, as any couple does. We talked about a myriad of things…there
seemed to be endless possibilities. We
prayed equally as much as we talked and it became important to us both to not
plan a wedding so much, as to plan a marriage.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
A Little Neurosis (but it's worth it if you read to the end...)
There’s a delicate balance between a person who is absolutely
normal and one who is absolutely wacko – and I know that balance well.
I’m not sure the internet or, more likely, the few people who read this
blog, are quite ready for this information.
Truthfully, I’m not sure I’m ready to put this out there. But here goes…
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Friday, January 1, 2016
Sketchy on the Details
It’s been a minute. Well, to be fair, it’s been A LOTTA
minutes.
I know. {hear the faint sound of defeat in that} You guys were all laughing at me when I
decided to start a blog a mere two months before another Gleaton was added to our
ranks. And to be honest, I don’t recall a single one of you warning me. Not
that I would have listened, but at least I wouldn’t have been quite so surprised
{read: bamboozled} when I failed to post ONE – a measely peasly ONE blog in the
entire 364 days that followed January 1st.
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