this week at a glance

laundry...

and more laundry!

thought of this caedmon's song as i looked around our house. my heart really was encouraged in spite of what my eyes saw!


this house is a good mess
it’s the proof of life
no way would I trade jobs
but it don’t pay overtime

i’ll get to the laundry
i don’t know when
i’m saying a prayer tonight
cause tomorrow it starts again

could it be that everything is sacred?
and all this time
everything I’ve dreamed of
has been right before my eyes

the children are sleeping
but they’re running through my mind
the sun makes them happy
and the music makes them unwind

my cup runneth over
and i worry about the stain
teach me to run to You 
like they run to me for every little thing

when I forget to drink from you
I can feel the banks harden
Lord, make me like a stream
to feed the garden

wake up, little sleeper
the Lord, God Almighty
made your Mama keeper
so rise and shine,rise and shine 
rise and shine cause

everything is sacred
and all this time
everything I’ve dreamed of
has been right before my eyes
Words and Music by Randall Goodgame and Andrew Osenga

(c) 2007 House of Mirrors Music (ASCAP) admin. by Simpleville Music, Inc. / 2007 Mighty Molecule Music. (ASCAP) admin by Music Services

last week at a glance

camping with cuties

celebrating our golden-haired, blue-eyed, as-cute-and-courageous-as-they-come ruby-girl's 2nd birthday

loving on this baby boy

Kids...

Follow him as he follows Him.

1 x 1

we're anything brighter than even the sun
(we're everything greater
than books
might mean)
we're everyanything more than believe
(with a spin
leap
alive we're alive)
we're wonderful one times one
                                        - e.e. cummings


you wrote a portion of this poem out in one of your first love
notes to me the summer we started dating.

it's been 9 years since we began relating to 
what cummings writes - perhaps more 
fully since
we experience the aliveness and unity 
of love 
in a christian way - and 8 
years today since i became 
mrs. matthew owen. 

i love being your wife and having you as my husband.
it's wonderful...

1 x 1.

5 thoughts at 5 weeks

1. As much as I love bows and accessories, I'm SO glad I don't have to deal with those this time around!


2. As much as I hate hearing that middle of the night "feed me" cry, I love walking in the nursery and picking up the little sweet bundle from his crib.


3. As much as I want Stella's help changing diapers, she needs a compliant subject. I tried to talk her through changing Ruby's diaper the other day while I was feeding Schaeffer. Needless to say, I'm thankful we have hardwood floors as the diaperless toddler ran around the living room with Stella chasing her.


4. As many diapers as I've changed over the past almost 5 years, I'm still getting the hang of the quick change required when diapering a boy. The showers I'm getting these days aren't the kind I want (or need)!


5. As much as I want sleep and a normal schedule again, I'm constantly trying to remind myself that my hope isn't in those things and I can't wait to strive for godliness when those things are a reality again. God's provided everything I need for life and godliness through circumstances like this too. That means He's provided the power to resist the temptation to respond to the girls in anger and to resist the temptation to be selfish and undisciplined with the bit of time I get to myself. And even though these circumstance aren't a trial necessarily, He's even provided the power to practice keeping the perspective of "light and momentary" through them. He knows I need this practice in thinking the right way for when trials do come.


Lord, help me not to waste my sleeplessness and the opportunity for Your power to be manifested through me during this time!


Happy 5 week birthday, baby boy! I love you and the other instruments of sanctification God has placed in my life! :)

why i love dead men

and my husband doesn't even mind. actually, he loves them too!


they being dead yet speak and counsel us today.

"practical theology for...

little girls" 
by stella owen


this morning it's storming out, and our fearful girl is going around the house comforting herself with the promises of God. it sounds something like this, "God will never destroy the earth with a flood again." (repeat many times) :)


she's also having a talk w/ her hello kitty doll about separating from false teachers.