You Know Your Family is Full of Musicians When....

Your toddler's favorite book is "The Noisy Orchestra" complete with buttons that sound all the different sections of the orchestra, and she had already been to a real concert before she turned one. When someone comes home from work exhausted/frustrated/pent up, they sit down to an instrument...

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Mondays Are All About Gentleness

This month has looked a lot like exhaling to release how I believed my time was supposed to go. Out of all thirty-one days of March, I was healthy for maybe seven of them. The rest of the time I was battling a stomach virus, a cold, a severe chest cough, strep throat, bronchitis,...

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Intentional Living: Welcome Spring

Looking back into my Unravelling the Year Ahead workbook from the lovely Susannah Conway, I'm pleased to see that many of my small and large intentions are beginning to blossom. On the first day of spring (yay, happy springtime!) it seemed fitting that I review my goals created in December for 2015....

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Find Where Your Comfort Is

Comfort is... her little voice saying, "snuggle, mama, I need snuggles!" curling up with the latest Taproot magazine and a warm cup of tea the silent beauty of the fresh flowers on my table walking up my front steps to hear faint sounds of the piano being played lying on the lawn in the sunshine lying...

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Constellations

Speaking of secret messages yesterday? Here's what I read in a book of poetry this afternoon, as I was contemplating what it means to love the wideness and fullness and deepness of God. It feels sometimes like he is stretching the constellations of His love farther than we can see. What a dangerous,...

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Secret Messages

Ever since I was very young, in single digits, I have loved codes, messages, secret writing, the like. My friends and I used to write each other notes and full-length letters in scripts only we could interpret. Even in high school I had a group of friends who knew how to write in Elvish. We didn't focus...

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Obsession

Playing classical guitar and playing mandolin are two very different worlds. Yes, they both involve music, being a stringed instrument, and possessing a relatively similar tuning, but that's about all they share. One focuses on classical music, a strict world of technical focus and accuracy of playing....

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