At A Hen's Pace

Yesterday we celebrated the Feast of Pentecost!  It's a day--no, a whole season--for remembering that after Christ ascended, He did not ...

A friend emailed me this quote from Teresa of Avila: (Thanks, Matt!) "Give me a person who has fifteen minutes of mental (interior) ...

I feel like this blog has been hurtling along at a breathless pace for the last six months or so. So many new things in our lives to write ...

I forget where I heard this little story, but I think of it often: There once were Western missionaries who went to minister to a primitive ...

“If you don’t have it now, you don’t need it now.” I once heard Elizabeth Elliott say this on her radio program, and it struck me so much th...

My blender broke last week. It was brand new. I made fruit smoothies with it once, and the next time I filled it up with yogurt and frozen...

Do you hate changing burnt-out light bulbs? About 2 years ago, I started replacing light bulbs throughout our home with compact fluorescent ...

Continuing with my current musings on choosing joy (recent posts are here and here ).... This educational, inspirational video is 22 minut...

Check out this article about a group who compacted not to buy anything new (food, toiletries and underwear exempted) for a year. Besides th...

We spent Christmas alone, just our family, for the first time in seven years. (Usually Papa Rooster's parents come over for the morning...

Well, I said here that we weren't going to participate by buying nothing...but as it has turned out, we've been so busy beginning a...

It's September 1--the first day of Tonia's 30 Days of Nothing challenge. I've been trying to decide how we can participate. It...

Better Off , by Eric Brende, was one of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books I've read in a long time. It's the real-lif...

I got up early, before the kids, to be silent for an hour. I sat on the deck and listened to the birds and watched the squirrels. In the s...

...in my e-mailbox: It is always easier to add to the noise of the world than to be silent. Silence is a very precious thing--"There wa...

It is certain from the Holy Scriptures that the Spirit of God dwells within us. There he acts, there he prays without ceasing, groans, des...

"My God, Madame, we will soon be in eternity, and then we will see how all the affairs of this world are such little things and how lit...

My dear daughter, I remember you telling me how much the multiplicity of your affairs weighs on you; and I said to you that it is a good opp...

That's my metaphor for garage saling ("sailing"?). It comes from the passage we all know, about that Proverbs 31 woman who ge...

1. Hyacinths 2. Vivaldi 3. Relaxing into my pillow at night 4. The cute, cute, cuteness of my baby 5. My favorite mug 6. A kiss and a smi...