Dec 5, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
FOR MANY YEARS I’ve followed Hannah Brencher, a questioner, a seeker, a believer who holds incredible wisdom for her (relative to me) young age. Among other things, she offers a beautiful Advent series to which I always subscribe, and this morning’s email...
Dec 4, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
I’VE SUNG IN a choir much of my life, first as a child at Gladeville Presbyterian in Wise, Virginia, and for the last 30 years at Providence Presbyterian in West Columbia, SC, the congregation I joined when, newly divorced and suddenly a single mom, I took my...
Dec 2, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE to you Stella, Edwin and Ellie—the three who may well have had the finest time of all when we gathered for a family Thanksgiving atop beautiful Cats Mountain. Stella, or “Lella,” as sweet 19-month-old Posey calls her, belongs with Tim...
Nov 30, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
IT IS A PRACTICE that brings depth to the season and calm to my soul; a daily watching for the promise that when darkness surrounds, light is to come. This is Advent, to me. It’s what we all want, is it not? What we need? To hang on? When life is hard, when the...
Nov 29, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
I LOVE A Christmas craft, particularly if it’s something I can do while watching The Voice or Survivor or (my current fave) The Diplomat. I’ve had fun these last couple of weeks popping out a few of what I’m calling Dancing Trees. They’re so...
Nov 27, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
The post below first appeared on The Daily Grace on Thanksgiving Eve 2011. So much has changed in the years since I wrote it. All of the grandparents have passed on. Eliza—the cute Party Girl in blue, above, is now 33, married, and has a sweet daughter of her...
