Resurrection ROLLS…This is a super fun and super yummy thing to show Jesus’ burial and RESURRECTION!! http://beautyandbedlam.com/resurrec...

2 month countdown!! 2 months from today, we’ll stepping onto a plane to Ethiopia…entrusting more than we ever have before to the Father....

I walked with my 5 this morning…tromping through the woods felt freeing.  It was life-giving.  We were thanking the Giver of Life as we...

My BABY GIRL IS NINE!! 9 years ago…in deep labor pains, I read, “Weeping (pain!) may last for a night, but JOY comes in the morning!”  It...

Today was a day of opening our hands…and letting go. Dave worked his last day at the Army Hospital.  What a mix of emotions…joy and...

The past week has been a mountain, but He helped us to climb it!! Our home went on the market on Thursday!! We lived at Grandma and...

His Grace amazed me today.  For 2 days, sweet sisters in Christ came and scrubbed and laughed and weeded and shared their lives with...

Jesus said, 20 “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him,...

Saturday mornings in the Ayer house…can sometimes be….well, ugly.  I contribute it to tired-ness and lack of structure?? What do you...

The initiative against drudgery Arise, shine. Isaiah 60:1. We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to...

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom...

I am a mess.  Truly.  But I live in Grace.  I am fighting for the JOY of my salvation. But it turns out I’m also Iron-deficient.  I’ve...

The groundbreaking is underway... I love our patient, loving Heavenly Father…As I have embarked on my writing/blogging binge today…I...

Evie-bear--our strong-willed, JOY-filled, instrument of patience and growth! Evie is our youngest, but no longer our littlest in size or...

Are you ready to be offered? I am already being poured out as a drink offering. 2 Tim. 4:6 (R.V. marg.). “I am now ready to be offered.”...

I love Oswald Chambers…he has been a faithful friend and mentor to me since college…God still uses his words to minister to Dave and I in...

The days are going quickly!! And the to-do list is growing bigger :)!! Our family is living our days mostly in ‘normal’ mode (whatever...

My heart is longing and learning to see Him in them…I wrestle day to day…to live here and have my heart in two worlds…the longing is...