Three years old! “Wellspring of Life” and granddaughter Rielyn Jolene are celebrating another birthday! As my longtime readers know and for the benefit of those more recently added, I published my first post the evening of Rielyn’s birth in 2010 and dedicated the “Wellspring” blog to her. In annual celebratory fashion, it brings me joy […]
Royalty Realm – It Is Finished
Advent – an arrival or coming, especially one which is awaited… A week ago I completed a 23-year chapter in my life. I spent the week of December 10 engaged in an 18-hour counseling intensive. Immersion was deep as I spent hours in addition to the counseling sessions on daily homework assignments designed to write […]
Royalty Realm – When God Hits the Wall
I believe in the longsuffering love and mercy of God. I also believe the time is soon upon us when God will announce, “Enough.” One of the mysteries of the Bible that has intrigued me most develops right out of the gate in Genesis. By chapter 6, this cataclysmic event in God’s own story is […]
“Wellspring” Second Anniversary & Birthday Edition
Hard to believe a full year has passed and both “Wellspring of Life” and Rielyn Jolene are two years old! What a year this has been! Wayne and I and our married children have lived in “Transition City” these past twelve months. And right under our noses (though 2,400 miles is too far away for […]
The Chronicles of Nancy, uh…
…continue. The calendar may have turned the page on a whole new year, yet it remains winter in our lives, much like Narnia caught in the white slumber of snow and ice. Surgery and chemo are behind me, yet my husband and I yearn for Spring and the promise of reconstruction and restoration. More than […]
Hardening of the Hearteries
It’s been a while since the last installment of “what’s clogging up your wellspring?” (See Deflective Hearts post). For some reason, it feels like it’s time for another one. “Oh, goody,” you say. In this holiday season of making merry and eating even more merrily, some things continue grinding on in the background. You’re familiar with […]
Sacred Bovine
Have you heard any internal mooing lately? You know, the kind of utterances that are founded on fiction and rationalization, but because you’ve stated them so long, they must be fact? If we’re human, there’s not one among us that can righteously say we have no sacred cows tromping through our thoughts, leaving muddy hoof […]