Faithful With My Little

 If in 2024 life rained a bit, which it did: if the saying is true that when it rains it pours, which it has...then the last 2 weeks the wind picked up too and things turned into a full-on hurricane.  The hard thing about a hurricane happening after a lot of rain is that the ground is already pretty saturated. It doesn't take much to cause a flood. I went into it all quite sleep deprived and honestly quite tired of all of this fighting. But the good thing about it is that quite a lot of preparation has been done up until this point. The rain doesn't sting my eyes like it did before. Or maybe it hurts even more but I have just gotten better at wiping them. I'm not turning into a storm chaser. I dream about brighter sunnier days. But if there is one thing, I can say about 2024 is that the Lord is truly close to the broken hearted. He saves those who are crushed in spirit.  In other words, even though it's awful, it isn't always that bad. The word God gave me at the en...

 Today is Sunday, the day when our modern western culture supposedly observes the Sabbath, so it seems like a good day to talk about rest. Rest has been on my mind a lot since my "vacation". Partly because I was very concerned about getting it, partially because I did my annual summer reading of "Teaching from Rest" by Sarah Mackenzie, and partly because I amped up to my regular work schedule after my week off and by some miracle I felt strangely.... rested. Life is crazy during these middle years with the kids. We are always going in a million different directions. They stay up very late, and I get up very early to fit in work. But the past couple of years the weekends have finally become a time when some days I can get up slowly. Read my Bible and drink my coffee with only minimal distractions, and the main battle is just to keep my mind from racing to the details of my day that I need to prioritize. And today when I opened my Bible in the quiet of the kid's b...

I took a week off work, and you would think it would be easier to find time to write but somehow it hasn't been. Granted, Monday and Tuesday were spent trying to mostly keep the kids out of the house because it was being completely repiped with epoxy liner and our toilets were sitting in the middle of the living room and master bedroom. The little bit of time we did spend at home those days involved cleaning up the aftermath, dodging plumbers, and taking emergency bike rides to find a working bathroom. But it's done now. For the first time since we moved in, we have 2 fully functioning bathrooms and now we have a short break before the jack-of-all-trades contractor comes back. He will be putting in the hurricane straps for our new roof and continuing to battle the wasp kingdom that lives in the neighbor's banyan tree but sends its sentinels out regularly and have stung all of us at least once. Hopefully he will also soon begin work on our master bedroom floors and paint it ...