by Kate | Mar 5, 2010 | Arizona
 I hope you have a wonderful weekend! I hope you do something inspiring. We have soccer games and choir practice. I hope that we get to do some used-bookstoring (it’s a word, I promise!). I hope I speak in gentle words to my husband, I hope I say just the right...
by Kate | Mar 4, 2010 | Family
 I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. ~ Mother Theresa  If you judge people, you have no time to love them. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. In this life we cannot do great things. We...
by Kate | Feb 28, 2010 | Family
Treasure, texture and encouragement all wrapped up in a sealed envelope. Shame on those bills for cluttering our beautiful mailboxes. Wouldn’t it be  nice to have one mailbox for letters and gifts ~ all the happy mail and another mailbox for bills and...
by Kate | Feb 25, 2010 | Family
“… to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified” (Isa. 61:1-3)....
by Kate | Feb 24, 2010 | Kids
 At 10:16, Brian walked into my office – the nurse had called… Julia fought the slide and the slide won. (You may remember that this month last year, a three foot fall off of a slide resulted in a broken arm) One Urgent Care trip and two stitches later,...