by Abigail Alleman | Dec 6, 2013 | Hope, Living for Him, Reflections, The Journey, Writing
These are days of stepping back and looking inside to places of hurt and pain and to longings that seem to have gotten washed away with the tide of urgency in life’s demands of mama, wife, missionary. I don’t know where it will all lead only that there is far to...
by Abigail Alleman | Jan 23, 2012 | Abba Heart, Faith, Gospel, Heaven, Hope, Reflections
For the second week in a row I am posting about an iconic sports figure who is close to my heart. {In case you didn’t know, I come from a sports-lovin’ family and married into one as well:} But, today, I write very little about the game that JoePa so dearly loved and...
by Abigail Alleman | Jan 14, 2011 | Mothers, Reflections
I am joining Lisa-Jo at The Gypsy Mama She gave a really fun challenge and prompt for today and I just had to join! The prompt was to pick a photo from your camera and then put it into words. That moment, that emotion, that experience. In no more than 5...
by Abigail Alleman | Dec 15, 2010 | Abba Heart, Advent, Gospel, Reflections, Walk with Him Wednesday
I am going to spend the four Wednesdays of Advent integrating thoughts on this season of preparation with meditations from The Green Letters: Principles of Spiritual Growth A Clarion Classic by Miles J. Stanford (you might want to get “The Complete Green...
by Abigail Alleman | Dec 13, 2010 | Advent, Gratitude, Reflections, The Journey
Once upon a Christmas a fluffy footed sleeper girl stumbled down stairs in the wee morning hours with her fellow fluffy footed twin and hugged newly filled stockings, having been given maternal permission to examine contents. A toothbrush. How...
by Abigail Alleman | Dec 9, 2010 | Grief, Imperfect Prose, Reflections
photo source Upon the happening of seeming ‘random’ events in a world colored chaos I search for the bright pieces of faith to form a strand of clarity and wrap me up and all of the oh-so-many hurting… We were on the way to the doctor and I thought how...