by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 29, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts
We drive the winding roads down the mountain, arriving at the spot we fell in love with last summer. Rocks and rivers may be the norm for people in this part of North Carolina, but we live in flat, marshy Florida. To us, this landscape is spectacular, a wonder and a...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 23, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Motherhood
I want to remember the smell of my baby’s breath and the soft contour of her toddler face, because I was there. I want to remember the ramblings of tales, and the twinkle of son’s eyes, because I saw him. I want my pre-teen beauty to have the confidence to...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 15, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Managing Life, Motherhood
I am rocking in the new summer morning, bathed in fresh rain. I am breathing in the clean air. Son is on the other rocker, nose in his iPod, playing a game. With enthusiasm about to make him burst, he erupts, “It’s my favorite game! Ooh! Ooh! Can you...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 9, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts
“See over there? That’s where I’ll be. I’m going to find God.” I let my girls know, as I tread out 250 feet behind our home to the back woods. There I seek God. Seek, until He’s found. Seek, until I’m found. I dreamed a...
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 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...
