This Wednesday

There are four blog posts in the works but in my heart of hearts I just can’t post any of them.  There are some circumstances that several close friends around us are facing which makes it a very difficult season deep in our souls as we watch them walk through each of them.  Bearing one…

I Understand Completely….

Having stared into their beautiful faces, Having held their broken bodies in my arms, completely captivated by their God-given beauty…. Having prayed over their broken bodies… Having whispered gentle words into their sweet ears…. Having heard their squeals of joy over the ordinary…. and having a little one of my own whose fragile body struggles…

Ferguson, Missouri

I made a little deal with myself.  {Does anyone else ever do this?}  I decided that I would not work on a blog post {favorite thing to do} until I had found something I had been searching for for weeks.  I had absolutely no clue where it was before the move, let alone where it…

Two Things…

Yesterday morning, as I was reaching to fill my coffee mug, I turned just in time to see the news: Meriam’s arrival on United States soil…. Oh me. Doesn’t she look stunning?  Her handsome husband, Daniel looks overwhelmed with emotion. To think, that she was sentenced to death by hanging for refusing to renounce her…

You and Me: Family Meeting {now}

Does anyone else out there have Family Meetings? We have them on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes our meetings are informational.  Other times they are exuberantly exciting. Rarely they are totally boring.  Occasionally they are very, very long. And every now and then they are very, very serious. Do you know what I mean? The…

The Favor

We have been talking a ton lately here at  our Place Called Simplicity about praying specifically. It is exciting how many have begun to do it and have seen God answer in amazingly crazy ways! Well here’s a powerful story to illustrate the point – and it’s been freshly added to our Memorial Box as…

A Specific Answer

Recently I asked bloggy friends to send me stories of specific times God has answered their prayers. It is easy to think, “Oh, He always answers so-n-so’s prayer, but He wouldn’t ever answer mine like that!” However, that’s not true!   He longs for relationship with each of us individually and He loves to meet…