by Abigail Alleman | Mar 22, 2013 | Family, Home, The Journey, Writing
Go :: At times they come in waves, these remembrances of days gone by… Some times I remember a smell and I am transported… Like the clean, upholstered furniture smell of my grandparents’ house or the earthy smell of cow manure or the baking smell of homemade italian...
by Abigail Alleman | Mar 8, 2013 | Faith, Home, Living for Him, Writing
Go :: And it’s here in the place and the days when so much of what has been shifting has finally settled… There is a physical home to call our own. There is a routine that does not involve inter-continental travel for over a year. There is the warmth of things...
by Abigail Alleman | Feb 5, 2013 | Faith, Heaven, Home, Hope, Mothers, The Journey
Last night, as I was about to sing to my daughter before bed, she said “Did Mommy’s mommy go up into Heaven?” At first I thought she was talking about Jesus going up into Heaven as that is what my husband was reading to her from the Jesus Bible Storybook before...
by Abigail Alleman | Feb 1, 2013 | Faith, Fear, Gospel, Home, The Journey, Writing
Go :: ‘Much Afraid’ I could have called myself long ago. It seems like what is new has always left me full of fear and aching longing to be free. Forever free of these fears and dancing in those fields of joy. I am tired, so tired, of being afraid and of...
by Abigail Alleman | Nov 2, 2012 | Faith, Family, Home, Hope, Mothers, Writing
and these roots have a strange and marvelous way of finding us as we wind our way through our days, through this life, this world, on our way home. I love the image of roots…it has meant more to me than ever these 10+ years since my Mama’s homegoing. There are...
by Abigail Alleman | Sep 18, 2012 | Beauty, Faith, Gratitude, Heaven, Home, Hope, Living for Him, The Journey
Do you ever find that the same message is coming to you over and over again from just about everywhere you turn? I certainly do. Knowing that there is a God who orchestrates the affairs of our lives to place us exactly where we are in.every.way. in order to...