I’m what I call an “emerging cook”, so I don’t have anything that really says “me” quite yet. I’m not big on baking because I have a hard time following recipes! Since I love to improvise, my preferred method of cooking is stove-top cooking. I love making stir-fry the most since it has such loose guidelines. My stir-fries turn out different each time!
Archive | November, 2011
“to love more, to know more of Christ’s love. . .”
My other girlfriends (both in real life and those I know online) are just treasures. They’ve shown me what it’s like to grow older together, to change, to mature, to fail and make mistakes, and yet still forge a connection and maintain a strong relationship. We can laugh together, fangirl together, and then just as quickly switch to talking about life and faith and God. In the years since my sisters have been married, I’ve come to appreciate these beautiful women even more.
Great Things and Giving Thanks
It is the golden days and cool nights that speak of endings — and of new beginnings yet to be seen — that make me stop and look back as I look forward. It is in looking back that I find…
Serving and Savoring
Over the years, my family has celebrated Thanksgiving in a variety of ways. There was the year that my dad’s job had us commuting back and forth from our home in Central Texas to an apartment in Hartford, Connecticut. We ate turkey sandwiches at a rest stop (and didn’t mind one bit, if I recall)….
an outdoors girl
I love skiing, ice skating, biking, and hiking, but walking is the form of exercise I employ most often. I also enjoyed running before I was pregnant, and look forward to resuming that after the baby arrives…
“Jesus is enough to bind a variety of girls together like sisters”
When I was eleven, my family took a trip to Haiti to meet a little boy we were hoping to adopt. That one little boy led to another little boy and two girls being added to my family through a three-year adoption process. During this time, I went back and forth to Haiti with my family many times…
Front Porch Mentoring
One of the things I love best about hearing tales of “the good old days” is the camaraderie between neighbors and the kinship that linked generations. Little girls learned how to be women simply by being with the women in their lives. Cooking, keeping house, taking care of babies — all the ins and outs of womanhood were learned as a matter of course, simply by one generation absorbing these things from previous ones.
quietly, consistently living and loving
I want to be a sermon in shoes. It matters less what I say, what I write, than how I live. I believe that there is little as powerful to influence a non-believer as quietly, consistently living my life according to my convictions, and to love, when it doesn’t make sense to love. So I try to live, and love and pray, and to never be too ashamed of who I am in Christ to speak or be silent as He so often quietly impresses my heart.
