by Emily P Freeman | Dec 30, 2015 | what we learned
As we prepare to move into a new year and anticipate what’s to come, it’s important to spend a little time looking back. My natural tendency is to move quickly to the next calendar page, to peek around the corner, to squint my eyes into the clean future of 2016 to see...
by Emily P Freeman | Dec 21, 2015 | blessings + benedictions
Christmas is near and we are still waiting. We carry within us a tension, pulling between our longing to sit still in quiet darkness and the temptation to rush ahead to the celebration. But many of us secretly, silently, don’t feel like celebrating. While some...
by Emily P Freeman | Dec 14, 2015 | blessings + benedictions
For today, I decided to read the Monday prayer out loud for you. Simply hit play in the player below, or of course you can simply read as usual. Life is a tangled up, colorful mess of joy and grief. And we are caught up, for better or worse, in the web of it....
by Emily P Freeman | Dec 12, 2015 | for your weekend
Today’s reads are for the hurried, the homebody, the writer, and the woman who needs a bit of hope for herself and her family in the new year. Enjoy your weekend, friends. // Christ in You: God’s Hospitality by Carolyn Watts for Hearing the Heartbeat //...
by Emily P Freeman | Dec 9, 2015 | books I've read (or want to read), gift guide
The summer before 5th grade, I spent hours on my dad’s typewriter in our dark Iowa basement, writing about a magical creature named Milo who lived in the walls. (I didn’t say the writing was good, but that’s not the point.) The point is that I have...
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