• Living Vertically,  Our Kids, Our Family

    Parent’s Love

    My precious mother-in-law sent an email this morning with a link to a famous and stirring video by AndiesIsle and  as I watched it, the enormous gift of her constant love wove through my insides like a living, breathing vine.   As parents, we give bits of ourselves to our children from the moment they are conceived, and every day throughout…

  • Our Kids, Our Family,  The Mystery of Marriage

    So Much New

    Today. Eldest son got his long-coveted tattoo.  He’s in Portland now, safe and sound.  Ready to start Year Two of Multnomah University and Season Two of college basketball.  While these all spin away from my reach, I am grateful for the always visible hand of our Lord – and a solid knowledge that I have done my best so far. …

  • Living Vertically,  The Mystery of Marriage

    Wow

    How can this be? Flooded with a new blessing.  Understanding grace as it overcomes me with a love and forgiveness undeserved. Gifts of love on this earth that shock me with joy.  Each time I feel a new sense of my on weakness(es!), I am simultaneously washed with the blood – the unmistakable and unfathomable love of God.  I see…