Impossible. It’s a word we don’t like very much. It reminds us of our limitations. But it can also point us to look beyond ourselves–to our imagination, to our communities, to our Creator. To the impossible! Around the Web Being a Parent Is Harder Than I Expected Over at the Kids Activities Blog, Becky Mansfield’s […]
Review: Wildflowers Magazine
When I was a child, I loved checking the mail. I hoped, with a hope that renewed every morning, that inside our mailbox I’d find an envelope addressed to me: a letter from my cousin in Iowa, perhaps, or a chain letter from a classmate. Or, better yet, a mysterious package whose contents would jump-start […]
Portal Keepers
“I’m off to Narnia!” With my own audacious words echoing in my ears, I huddled under a shelf in the bathroom closet, knees tucked under my chin, eyes clamped shut so I wouldn’t see the strip of yellow light under the door. It was so clearly artificial, so clearly from this world of electricity and […]
The Warren & the World Vol 7, Issue 33
Beauty and art and nature. I’ve been thinking about all of them this week and the internet seems to have been doing so as well. Around the Web Is Sunshine Sacrament? Nathan Gilley explores the truth behind a flight of imagination. Sometimes, I’m exasperated by the sheer number of times my daughter asks “why?” Yesterday, […]
Rodents, Romans, and Chiaroscuro: Why We Love The Tale of Despereaux
Reader, do you know the definition of the word ‘chiaroscuro’? If you look in the dictionary, you will find that it means the arrangement of light and dark, darkness and light together. Let me tell you a few things you already know: Sometimes light and darkness take up residence in the same heart. Sometimes those who […]