Keeping Watch: a 25-day Advent journey ORDER Keeping Watch Every Advent we begin a journey. This year join the shepherds, Keeping Watch… Keeping Watch is a new Advent study I’ve written, based on Luke 2:8-20. How does the story of the shepherds intersect with our modern lives?Beginning December 1, each day offers a reflection based on a small … Continue reading Advent 2020 – new study

***   A couple of Saturdays ago, I got up early for a day of baking. On the menu: my grandmother's 1-2-3-4 cake. She’d make this recipe for the layers of my birthday cake - layers slathered with a rich, sticky lemon curd and topped with freshly grated coconut. I can taste it now… On … Continue reading The 1-2-3-4 Cake

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ~ Matt. 6:19-21 NIV … Continue reading All the things that matter…

Oh Jesus, so much of me seeks just a bit of You, to tentatively touch the outer hem of Your garment, to be somehow filled with Your never-ending love and mercy and grace. But today I cannot see even Your hem. All around me instead are images of an indifferent disease that is making us a scared and sick and … Continue reading A Holy Week Prayer

  But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ~ 2 Corinthians 4:7 NIV     I am the clay. Endless potential, but not in my own hands. Only in His. He is the Potter. The One who will shape me. The Potter … Continue reading I am the clay

    Music: http://www.bensound.com I made this journal for myself back in 2015! It has a lot of miles on it, but these journals are made to be used, as you can see. If you'd like to see my designs, they're here. I'm adding a new design every week! Shop: A Simple Note Shop   … Continue reading VIDEO: My Journals

I'm so excited to announce my spring line of journals, appearing in the Simple Note Shop over the next few weeks. Each journal cover is handmade heavy art watercolor paper with hand-designed, unique covers and beautiful flyleaves. These journals are perfect to use as prayer, nature or gardening journals. They make a special gift as … Continue reading New Journals

The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives - altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. But what I have come to see is that … Continue reading Ask…

  For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ… But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives.  ~ Phil. 3:18, 20 NLT   As believers, we … Continue reading Hearts in Heaven