Reaching for Hot Cocoa; Holding Lemonade
September is indecisive. Yesterday talked like fall; today is acting summer. The sun is warm; the air cool. This soft green green grass feels cold through my je...
Author: Heather Paige Hunt
Autumn Dear
Good morning, Autumn. This week, nights have progressed from air conditioned to windows open to windows shut. This morning the wood floor was cold beneath my f...
The Beauty and the Might
I look up from the full table, beyond the long white porch of Lauren’s rental cottage, at the changes on the lake. Before breakfast, savory crepes: eggs, ...
“Big” is a Nebulous Term
“Son, look up into that huge dark sprawling 40-foot tree. Now look beyond the tree at the first star tonight. Did you know that that star is bigger than t...
A Matter of Life and Death
There’s something about gentle nourishing rain in a graveyard on a summer day. Especially this lush hillside 19th century cemetery. Ancient hemlock trees, mos...
3 Thousand Different Kinds of Beautiful
1) Sunlight on water can be a thousand different kinds of beautiful. Even over the same body of water, this East Texas lake for instance, every morning sky ref...
A Lesson in Patience and Perspective
20 hours ago we were packing ice chests by candles light because this time yesterday a sudden, angry, lake-sloshing storm blew pine trees into power lines. I l...
No son, we are not gypsies.
This summer resembles last summer in that we move nearly weekly, but this season we are not family member hopping- we are church member hopping. Christopher...
A Big Loudbright in the Sky
From the front yard of our house of the week, we sense the local July 4 celebration flickering just below the horizon. Surrounded by rising fireflies below a c...
Buttricks, Buttresses and Back Roads: Entering Prayer Quiet & Confident
Does King’s College Chapel’s ceiling remind you of winter treetops on an unbending back road? Around here, where winter is long and tree-vaulted roa...
As Women, Inside Us is this Longing-
As women, inside us is this longing- an insatiable need for validation, adoration, affirmation, affection, and devotion. And we are like, “Where is this...
20 Minute Escape
“Heather, I’m home. Oh, I forgot to return the library books. I’ll go back.” “No. I’ll go,” I snatched the keys from Chris’ hand mid stride. I love my childr...
We are moving and I feel…
Coffee and watching petals fall with morning rain from courtyard tree.Sound, comforting.Site, lovely.Sentiment, sad but hopeful. In a few hours, our tree will n...
Spoken Word: The Artful Testimony of an Abused Girl
This woman’s testimony is powerful. So many people feel what she feels and are quiet. So many people do not know what she and others feel and choose igno...
End Demand Loudly
Good men have a choice between ending demand quietly (not soliciting sex, but not talking about it either) and ending demand loudly. Speak out. Watch a short v...
Buy Ethically
Most of us agree, it is good to buy ethically sourced products, but how?
Pantomime Videos Say A Lot
mtvU made these beautifully done informative videos and a neat interactive website. Interact and watch here http://thebackstory.mtv.com/.
Musical movies and shows and prose.
This week I saw the film rendition of one of my favorite musical plays and the musical play rendition of one of my favorite movies. Les Miserables and Once Chri...
When the baby got stuck in the bathroom and couldn’t get out
Last night, my 14-month-old decided to close himself in my parent’s hall bathroom. Not a strange occurrence except that he also scooted the narrow g...
veggies & birdies & music & coffee
Reaching for carrot shoots and loose potatoes on farm stands, pointing at hopping finches, watching where the folk music is coming from and bobbing his head to ...
Understanding Sex Traffickers
May I cut and paste from BibleGateway.com? Psalm 10 2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises. 3 He bo...
Songs for Moms
I Get to be the One by JJ Heller You Make Me Believe in Love by JJ Heller Keep You Safe by JJ Heller Seeds by Brooke Fraser In My Arms by Plumb I Am by Jill Phi...
Crepes in Quebec in Autumn
Warm nutella in a delicate crepe leaves little to be desired. Especially when eaten in a 17th century structure next door to the Chateau Frontenac in the forti...
Vengeance Is Not Mine
I often apply God’s encouraging words for Judah to His encouragement for victims of sex trafficking. Today, I read in Jeremiah 50:34, All their captors h...
Love True in the Newspaper
To read Bob Makin’s September 28 article about Love True, the awesome organization I am helping found, click http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/Centra...
For the Love of Solitude
Many of us live more restlessly than restfully. Although watching a sunset while lying in the grass or dangling our feet off a dock sounds romantic, most of us ...
What about Second Breakfast?
After Blue Eyes had finished his banana and cheerio breakfast (we are trying to learn baby sign language, but currently he makes his sentiments known by trying ...
Simple Pleasures
I had $4.03 to spend at the Rutgers University farmers market. I tasted some sausage and some wine and a butter-toasted pecan then spent what I had: Spinach tu...