I’m glad you are here to celebrate! Share a link to your blog post below and/or use #celebratelu to share celebrations on Twitter. Check out the details here. Celebrate This Week goes live on Friday night around 10(ish). Consider it as a weekend celebration. Whenever it fits in your life, add your link. Please leave a little comment love for the person who links before you. ***** {One.} I celebrate forgiveness, the kind of forgiveness that completely heals a heart that was harshly wounded, but is now repaired. Forgiveness that… Read more CELEBRATE This Week: LXXII →
I’ve been asking myself this quite often these days: Why keep writing here? Why keep blogging? Why keep clacking words? Why keep collecting stories in this space instead of a… Read more Why keep writing here? →
I’m glad you are here to celebrate! Share a link to your blog post below and/or use #celebratelu to share celebrations on Twitter. Check out the details here. Celebrate This Week goes live on Friday night around 10(ish). Consider it as a weekend celebration. Whenever it fits in your life, add your link. Please leave a little comment love for the person who links before you. ******** I’m so tempted to simply say, I celebrate a good week, and call it a celebration. Really, though, it would be a cop-out.… Read more CELEBRATE This Week: LXVI →
I collect stories. The Bible is filled with really awful, horrible chapters of stories. Hard journeys of deceit and jealousy, murder and rape, exclusions and cover-ups. If you take one… Read more I am a Story Collector →
{Go} There is enough room for you, if you dare to step on in.You are welcomed, if you dare to say hello.Your voice matters, if you dare to speak the… Read more Five Minute Friday {Dare} →
Last month I listened to Beth Moore speak. She anchored our day with a word: Landmark. It was her expectation for the day to be a landmark in each person’s… Read more Personal Landmarks →
I’m glad you are here to celebrate! Share a link to your blog post below and/or use #celebratelu to share celebrations on Twitter. ******** I’m wrapped in my pirate quilt with a steaming cup of coffee next to me. I’m next to the fireplace. It is beckoning for a spark to crackle into flames. It is almost-still, but not quite. Hannah is up, getting ready for her final race of the season. Andy is up, making her breakfast, making me coffee. The wind whistles and I imagine a cyclone of… Read more CELEBRATE This Week: LI →
My husband’s and my friend Nate taught three of our four children how to swim. Nate was 20 when I scribbled these lessons in my notebook after our final swim lesson. Get in the pool. Nate was a competitive swimmer. He knows how to swim well, so he can teach in a richer way. As writing teachers, we need to put words on paper. It gives a deeper insight into how to teach writing well. Teach one thing. After watching a swimmer he gave one suggestion to make the stroke… Read more Teach Writers Like Nate Taught Swimmers →
Ruth Ayres Writes 