by Emily P Freeman | Mar 24, 2016 | family, marriage, rest
It’s the season of spring break and many of us have traveling on our minds. It can be easy, for me anyway, to romanticize places other than home. I have a mixed relationship with traveling. I would actually love to travel if it wasn’t for the travel. In...
by Emily P Freeman | Jun 17, 2015 | family, photography, rest
This week, I practice the words of Macrina Wiederkehr and I’m “leaving my head for a while on a journey to my heart.” I’m always surprised how I’ve lost the way but my Father knows and brings me home again. Sometimes the journey to the...
by Emily P Freeman | Mar 16, 2015 | family, marriage, my house
Results are rolling in from our 2015 reader survey and already I’ve learned so much from you! (By the way, there’s still time to let your voice be heard – simply fill out the survey questions here.) Here’s one result that doesn’t surprise...
by Emily P Freeman | Aug 14, 2014 | family, motherhood
The next few days may be marked with lasts, but soon her grown-up child begins a new set of firsts. She helps him pack his bags with clothes and his boxes with books. But you see what the mamas carry in their hearts – anticipation, longing, love, regret, anxiety,...
by Emily P Freeman | Aug 8, 2014 | A Million Little Ways, family, music
Here in North Carolina we have two full weeks left until school starts and I’m working hard to soak them in. If I’m not careful, I can have my eyes trained so carefully on our fall schedule that I forget to look down at where we stand today, hanging on to...
by Emily P Freeman | Jun 9, 2014 | breathe, family
“We stop, whether by choice or through circumstance, so that we can be alert and attentive and receptive to what God is doing in and for us, in and for others, on the way. We wait for our souls to catch up with our bodies.” -Euguene Peterson, The Jesus Way On...
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