Rachel and Pete

"The Lord has done great things for us,

and we are filled with joy."

                      -Psalm 126:3

Weekends Are For

Snowy, snowy days.

Learning this piano song, all by yourself.

Cradling a 5-week-old baby in your arms.

Remembering and missing this place.

Homemade cheese pizza.

Unhurried Hands

"Life at its fullest is this

sensitive, detonating sphere,

and it can be carried 

only in the hands of the unhurried."

             - Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts

Healed By His Sacrifice

"Surely He took upon our infirmities 

and carried our sorrows,

yet we considered Him stricken by God, 

smitten by Him, and afflicted.

But He was pierced for our transgressions, 

He was crushed for our sin.

The punishment that brought up peace was upon Him.

And by His wounds, we are healed."

                       -Isaiah 53:4-5

Matthew 6

 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the fields, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you-- you of little faith? 

So do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

                      --Matthew 6:25-34

Song For A Winter's Night

If I could know within my heart

That you were lonely too

I would be happy just to hold the hands I love

On this winter's night with you

              -Sarah Mclachlan, Song For a Winter's Night

Fading Fingerprints

Sometimes you get discouraged because I am so small

And always leave my fingerprints on furniture and walls

But every day I'm growing, I'll be all grown up someday

And all these tiny handprints will simply fade away

           -Unknown