by Kit | Aug 28, 2024 | Devotions, On Downsizing, On Living, On Mission, Uncategorized
This article by Kit Tosello was originally published at (in)courage as “Our Longings Are Signposts, Directing Us Home to More of Him.” I once traded ten years of my life for a dream — a dream ten thousand sizes too small and altogether the wrong...
by Kit | Mar 27, 2021 | On Empty-Nesting, On Living, On Mission, On Parenting
With the dreaded medical procedure behind me, I roll back the bedcovers feeling confident. My mind’s still pleasantly misted from the anesthesia and the doc had good news. I should have no trouble sleeping tonight. But nope. Hours later I’m like a flailing fish...
by Kit | Dec 19, 2020 | Advent Reflections, Love Others, On Mission, Think About these Things, Whatever is Lovely
When Marissa was just a small, freckled thing, her bed was densely populated with stuffed toys and chubby dolls. Let’s just say there was nothing random about the way they were arranged. Part of our nightly tucking-in ritual was positioning each one just so....
by Kit | Jan 1, 2020 | On Living, On Mission, Uncategorized
Or, How to Write a Letter to Your Future Self As the calendar pages flutter forward under the relentless winds of time, how can I be sure I’m becoming who I’m meant to be? Whenever a freshly minted year is about to start, I feel the need to have some...
by Kit | Aug 8, 2018 | On Empty-Nesting, On Living, On Mission, On Parenting
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and...
by Kit | Aug 26, 2016 | On Living, On Mission, On Parenting, Reasons to Believe
[This post first appeared at AnotherBrokenHallelujah.com on December 3, 2014.] When I said “Come sit on the bed,” she just planted her legs straight like prison bars and asked why. I patted the comforter next to me and mustered up my best impression of a mother...
