A Few Good Tales

Per Emily’s request in a previous comment, I thought I’d post a short list of my absolute favorite books. This one is entirely fiction, mostly novels with a few children’s tales thrown in for their rare quality of wonder. God in his mercy knew I would need story to come to terms with life and godliness and [...]

Return to Rhythm

I always underestimate the amount of time it takes to get back into the literal swing of things. Travel is such a whirling dance of its own that it always takes me a bit of time to change tunes and rhythm and enter back into the slower, but oh so beautiful song of home life. [...]

A thought to mull…

Captain O’Hara’s ideas of God were peculiar to himself. His God spoke with the voice of winds and waters, sat enthroned among the snows, crowned with the stars, His sword the lightning and his shield the sun. His garment was the green of upland forests and kneeling amongst the bladed wheat, amongst the flowers and [...]

“Beauty, ah, beauty…”

So says Lottie, my favorite character in the book Enchanted April as she wanders the slopes round the Italian castle she has rented for a month. Those words came so many times to my mind in the past week, because there just isn’t much else to say about the Lake District. It really is every [...]

Home

May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you,
Wherever he may send you.
May he guide you through the wilderness,
Protect you through the storm,
May he bring you home rejoicing,
At the wonders he has shown you.
May he bring you home rejoicing,
Once again into our doors.
Well, I’ve made it back rejoicing. And oh its good to step [...]

Skies and Souls

After an absolutely exhausting two days of ceaseless scurrying (frenzied packing, walking (or running, depending on how late we were for our train, exploring (hah!) the maze of the Underground and generally trying to be in two places at once) I fell sound asleep yesterday on the last leg of our journey north. We are [...]

Pictures

Joel, the picture-expert-guy of the two of us, has set up a photo blog where he is posting some of the pictures from our trip. He’s a great photographer anyway (we spent a good two hours in the Cambridge Botanical Gardens snapping away last weekend) but has also taken it upon himself to document at [...]

Quiet Friendships

I think I have stumbled upon an unexpected richness in the place in which I am living at the moment. While we are in Cambridge, Joel and I are living in a Christian study center housed in a rambling old home of narrow stairs and large windows peering out into a garden. It is a [...]