Month: August 2025

  • Self confidence

    Self confidence

    How easy it is for the self-importance car to take a wrong turn. Here we are, driving the proper way, switching only occasionally to course correct. But mostly going in the right direction. Even when I worried, I sensed God’s delight in our obedience despite the imediate results. These days of over confidence boost, riding…

  • you pray

    you pray

    This is how Ivy calls me to their room after we already said good night, and Conrad and I read quietly on the couch. It’s usually to talk through something and to pray. I usually have to dig a little deeper to find the real question. Ivy deflects.⁃ what do you mean?She repeats the question.…

  • Chasing the trousers thief 

    Chasing the trousers thief 

    Conrad and I were gone on a hike. As we always were during the free time. The girls are confidently independent. We slowly but surely built towards this independence, for our sanity and their development.  Ivy followed Heather & Noemi up to their crowded room. 6 girls per room. As they were busy getting something,…