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Hello

So glad you’re here. I write about living the intentional life, fixing our eyes on Christ, and resting in grace. My hope is that you are encouraged.

xx Beth

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At our weekly Shabbat meal on Saturday, at a long table filled with friends, my husband read:

This week has been a doozy. Something to do with stress and grief and trauma leaking out into my relationships, especially with Ben, with my children. I’m weary… is what I wrote in my journal this morning.

A Liturgy for Looking Up

Heeeey 👋 it’s been awhile, and all of a sudden it’s October, what?!

This girl 😍 Ben is on his ministry trip this week, which means the girls and I have been holding down the home. Lots of play with friends, reading and watching Little Women (and channeling Marmee), working during quiet time, puzzles and plays, and generally eating all day… And while I’m tired, I’m so grateful for their hilarious and warm company, for their growing helpful hands, for their quick forgiveness and generous love. Mothering my four is such a joy. #thankfulinSA

Look at all these TCKs! We had such a sweet weekend with dear friends in Pretoria✨ so grateful for these kiddos, for precious time together, for a surprise evening getaway for Ben and I, for good encouragement and food and laughs and all of it. Being part of a team with these amazing people is such a gift! @amandajoyburleson @lizguille42 #thankfulinSA

“The rain is still pouring, my heart is still heavy. And so I will turn again to God, and in so doing, reject the narratives of my aloneness or the uniqueness of my suffering. Instead, I will join with the saints of old, the writers of Scripture, who have modeled to us how to pray through our pain.”

“The word home summons up a place … which you have rich and complex feelings about, a place where you feel, or did feel once, uniquely at home, which is to say a place where you feel you belong and which in some sense belongs to you, a place where you feel that all is somehow ultimately well even if things aren’t going all that well at any given moment.” [love me some Frederick Buechner with his whimsical, run-on sentences]

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