Jane Evershed is a local artist. So much of her work speaks to me. I am a woman who stands in awe of the world God has created. And I am also a woman who has stood by and fought for women to be heard in this beautiful world. So, as a Christian, an environmentalist, and a feminist, I thought I'd share with you the cover of my current journal. I think it's ok to post it here since it is not reproduction quality, and I have given credit to the artist.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Evershed
Jane Evershed is a local artist. So much of her work speaks to me. I am a woman who stands in awe of the world God has created. And I am also a woman who has stood by and fought for women to be heard in this beautiful world. So, as a Christian, an environmentalist, and a feminist, I thought I'd share with you the cover of my current journal. I think it's ok to post it here since it is not reproduction quality, and I have given credit to the artist.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
More Iditarod....
We are having so much fun! Mane made a book about Jessie Royer. This morning she ran around in the snow pretending to win the Iditarod! We watched Snow Dogs (I don't recommend it - wasn't all that great), and tonight we're watching Balto. Mane currently has one of her stuffed dogs in a harness, and she periodically drags him around the house. The dog's name is Wilferd...for those of you who were wondering.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Jessie Royer
Jessie Royer - the musher we're tracking through the Iditarod!!
Her website: http://huskypower.com/jessie/jessie.html
Cheer with us!!
Iditarod
My new obsession? The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race!! Mane & I are doing a homeschooling unit study on the Iditarod this week, and we're having SO MUCH FUN! We decided to follow Jessie Royer through the race, and we're mapping her progress every day. We're also charting the temperatures at Ms. Royer's checkpoints & here at home to compare when we're done.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Through Faith
We talked about faith in Bible Study yesterday, and I realized something.
I am not afraid.
We talked about "through" faith that takes you through things rather than around them, about how God promises to be with us but doesn't promise the easy way. Somebody said to me the other day that they're afraid to pray about something because they're afraid that God will give them something awful and miserable to do. They're afraid they'll have to go "through" something. Somehow we seem to understand God as overly fond of difficulty.
I am not afraid, but I have been in the past. I know the feeling. I used to worry about praying for who God wanted me to marry, convinced that God would send me someone good but ugly. Or sweet but boring. I don't quite know why I thought that. I just remember thinking it. I was sure that what I wanted was too much to ask and that looks or excitement didn't concern God much. But God gave me every desire of my heart in my sweet Mango.
And I've learned something. I've been married to Mango for almost 9 years. And we have been through much. We have been through school together, through the losses of our grandparents, through struggles with neighborhood crime, through the sleep-deprived years of early parenting, job changes, job challenges, and a whirlwind adoption. I realize that God gave me a partner who matches my passion and intensity, my desire to follow God wherever God leads. And God has given us some tough assignments. We laugh about how nothing good comes easy, about how everything worthwhile requires blood, sweat & tears. We groan when we realize in the middle of a challenge that this just isn't going to come together easily. God is taking us through, not around.
But there's a certain excitement because we know that there will be some shining gem when we're through. We have seen it enough times now to know that we will get through.
And I am not afraid.
I am not afraid.
We talked about "through" faith that takes you through things rather than around them, about how God promises to be with us but doesn't promise the easy way. Somebody said to me the other day that they're afraid to pray about something because they're afraid that God will give them something awful and miserable to do. They're afraid they'll have to go "through" something. Somehow we seem to understand God as overly fond of difficulty.
I am not afraid, but I have been in the past. I know the feeling. I used to worry about praying for who God wanted me to marry, convinced that God would send me someone good but ugly. Or sweet but boring. I don't quite know why I thought that. I just remember thinking it. I was sure that what I wanted was too much to ask and that looks or excitement didn't concern God much. But God gave me every desire of my heart in my sweet Mango.
And I've learned something. I've been married to Mango for almost 9 years. And we have been through much. We have been through school together, through the losses of our grandparents, through struggles with neighborhood crime, through the sleep-deprived years of early parenting, job changes, job challenges, and a whirlwind adoption. I realize that God gave me a partner who matches my passion and intensity, my desire to follow God wherever God leads. And God has given us some tough assignments. We laugh about how nothing good comes easy, about how everything worthwhile requires blood, sweat & tears. We groan when we realize in the middle of a challenge that this just isn't going to come together easily. God is taking us through, not around.
But there's a certain excitement because we know that there will be some shining gem when we're through. We have seen it enough times now to know that we will get through.
And I am not afraid.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Anne
What have I been doing while not posting here you ask?
I'm on my second reading of the Anne of Green Gables books in two years. I used to read them all yearly when I was a kid. There's something so soothing, honest, and, yes, DEEP about these books, and I'm finding all these beautiful little tidbits that I didn't notice when I was younger.
"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple, little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
~ Anne in Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay night riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rythm and the music; perhaps...perhaps...love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
~ from Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
"...and the sky above was crystal clear and blue - a great inverted cup of blessing."
~ from Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
That's all. I've just been reading Anne.
And next I think I'll be reading The Lord of the Rings again. I read them last year. And the year before.
Thanks for reading.
I'm on my second reading of the Anne of Green Gables books in two years. I used to read them all yearly when I was a kid. There's something so soothing, honest, and, yes, DEEP about these books, and I'm finding all these beautiful little tidbits that I didn't notice when I was younger.
"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple, little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
~ Anne in Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay night riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rythm and the music; perhaps...perhaps...love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
~ from Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
"...and the sky above was crystal clear and blue - a great inverted cup of blessing."
~ from Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
That's all. I've just been reading Anne.
And next I think I'll be reading The Lord of the Rings again. I read them last year. And the year before.
Thanks for reading.
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