I moved to the West Virginia mountains at ten years old, a happy-curly-headed-little girl with stars in my eyes. During those years, we built our own home. For the first couple of years, we didn’t have plumbing or electric or running water. My parents made us believe that eating baked potatoes with ketchup and mayonnaise [...]
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Buttered Toast
Posted in celebration, contentment, devotional, memoir on July 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Spinning World
Posted in contentment, faith, health on June 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I woke this morning with all sorts of plans. The first thing I said to Delmar, “I want to go to Russia.” And then proceeded to tell him all the reason I should go this winter. He smiled patiently from his pillow. The next idea was about how to raise money for our potential trip [...]
Love Comes Softly
Posted in contentment, love, marriage, memoir on May 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Our dating days were fun, our engagement sweet, our wedding day beautiful, our honeymoon dreamy: and the first six months a journey of becoming one. I know they say that it keeps getting better, and I do believe them, but at the same time it’s hard to believe. I think my heart can’t contain any [...]
Our Yellow House
Posted in contentment, faith, home on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We woke up to fluffy snowflakes and a white world in our new house: a little yellow rancher a stone’s throw from Camp Andrews. We moved the last of our belongings on Tuesday. It was a whirlwind of a week: packing, cleaning, settling, hanging up pictures, shopping, organizing. Slowly, our home is emerging from the [...]
A Curveball
Posted in contentment, faith, mission on March 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Life throws curveballs, and sometimes they are very good but hard to catch and figure out what to do with. That’s what happened to us last Wednesday. We were thrown a curveball. We were told that Camp Andrews rented a home down the road; we had first dibs on moving in there if we wanted. [...]
Intentional Living
Posted in celebration, contentment, home, marriage, memoir, mission on March 7, 2011 | 6 Comments »
We got married knowing our first year would be unique. Delmar is part of Camp Andrews, a camp for urban children. It’s busy all year with church groups, kids clubs and events. In the summer, he will be busy leading wilderness trips for urban children. We got married, knowing that living on the “mission field” [...]
25 Days
Posted in celebration, contentment, marriage, wedding preparations on October 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
As the countdown begins, I’m a bundle of emotions. Joy and pain do run on parallel tracks. In the most joyous season of life, pain of change and separation runs its course. I’m bursting with joy to be married. But, I’m also a little sad. It’s going to be hard to pack my blue room, [...]
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