I’m a bit late to the game on Share Four Somethings 2022–and everything else for that matter, or so it seems. I had a doozy of an autumn, moving back to Michigan, living with family for ten weeks, a lengthy delay closing on our new home, COVID, then actually moving into the new house three weeks before Christmas. January felt […]
In April of 2019, my husband returned home from a four-month deployment to the Middle East. While he was there, he worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week. While he was there, he didn’t have a single day off. He knew this ahead of time, and I suggested to him that we go on a vacation when he got back, […]
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in […]
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” (Ps. 19:1 NIV) I was born and raised in Michigan, where winters are cold and snowy. I remember feeling like Randy from A Christmas Story when I was a child, bundled up in so many thick layers that I could barely move. When my husband and I […]
In the whirl of moving back home to Michigan and simultaneously taking on a new role at work, I took a month off from Share Four Somethings (and from many other things, some for several months, as I just couldn’t keep all the balls in the air), but it feels good to be back, tapping away at the keyboard in […]
Being consistent about showing up here in this space is never easy for me, no matter how much I’d like it to be. I write in what Jessica Turner calls “the fringe hours,” and whenever my life is in a state of upheaval or transition, whether it’s the new school year starting or a sick kiddo in the house, I […]
