by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 2, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts
We honored her this week — this birthday week of hers. Birthdays are different this year. They are different, because Christmas will be different this year. We made the decision last Christmas — Christmas will be the celebration of the birth of the Christ...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jun 27, 2012 | Managing Life, Motherhood
There they are. The bills that need paying. The papers that need filing. The calendar that needs space. Occupying my writing stool — clothes that need folding, in one tight place — life choking life. Is all this necessary? Open there — the words that...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jun 26, 2012 | Motherhood
Here’s a birthday letter to you, daughter. While I am cooking here, attempting gluten-free French toast, and frying sausage links — which is a special treat — I am pondering as you are sleeping in your summer morning, the wonder of God. We are to...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jun 25, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, The Soul
A call to a deeper place left an unsettling in my heart. Weary just won’t let me rest, so I sought after God, and it was a breakthrough I craved. Not a breakthrough to get me to a new place, or to find a new blessing to add to my already abundant lot. Not a...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jun 17, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts
Until next Monday, it will be a quiet place here. I need to take time to clear the clutter and the noise in my head. I believe God is trying to speak — and I need to pull away so I can hear. I am praying for a renewal and infilling. I know it can be found in His...
