by Emily P Freeman | Jul 20, 2017 | family, freedom, marriage, rest
When I was a kid, vacation meant packing up the Barbies in their bathing suits, driving a mile to Grandma Morland’s house, and dipping their plastic feet in her blow up swimming pool. It meant fun dip at the public pool and sprinklers in the backyard. Maybe once...
by Emily P Freeman | Oct 25, 2016 | friendship, hope, ministry, rest
“What’s becoming clearer and clearer to me is that the most sacred moments, the ones in which I feel God’s presence most profoundly, when I feel the goodness of the world most arrestingly, take place at the table.” Shauna Niequist, Bread and...
by Emily P Freeman | Sep 12, 2016 | breathe, rest
We sit side by side in the early morning light, feet on sand, eyes to the horizon. The air rolls off the sea in bossy gusts, turns the pages of my book and my hair wild. We took the short walk from the beach house together thirty minutes before, chairs balanced on our...
by Emily P Freeman | Jun 14, 2016 | rest
“Here’s a place that will have its way with me.” Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun The kids are home for summer and we head to the coast to spend a little time letting the sea smooth out the jagged edges that have formed within and around us. We...
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...
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