Tag: thankfulness

  • Happy Birthday Blog

    I used to loathe the word “blog.” Now I love it. Love and Be Loved came to life one year ago, though it had been brewing, stewing, percolating long before that. This has been an excellent and amazing twelve months because “the blog” has helped keep me whole: it has given me an outlet, a…

  • The girls run through the damp grass

    “…whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God…” ~ Romans 14: 6 The girls run through the damp grass in fuchsia, orange, yellow, and red-colored swimming suits, squealing with excitement and anxiety over big brother’s impending splash of water from the pistol, or the bucket. Little brother bounds up the soft slope,…

  • God has blessed me in Christ (Ephisians 3)

    For the morning, for the night, for the souls entrusted to my care; for noontime, for evening, for every hidden snare, for the winter, for the spring, for every time fulfilled; for love, for loving, forgiveness sweetly shared.