Category: New LIfe

• Endings and Beginnings

  photo by Dana Ross Martin An ending and a beginning overlapped for me recently. In the same weekend that I said “good-bye” to a dear friend who moved to another state, I joined a new retreat ministry and blessed the threshold of a new beginning. Experiencing these two events back-to-back felt, at first, like emotional…

  June 14, 2017

• Growing a Community… Garden!

  I’m frugal. It’s both my nature and the result of working for churches and nonprofits my entire adult life. It can be hard for me to spend money on things deemed necessary.  So when it was time to turn our mud puddle of a yard into something more inviting I struggled.  “I need green growing…

  April 28, 2015

• A Restless Wind

  My miracle baby turned one yesterday.  It has been a blissful year full of peace and contentment.  I thinned out my life to make room for all that once suffocated.  I have savored moments in their simplicity without rushing to the next.  I am a better mother for it, a better person. But restlessness begins…

  April 17, 2015