The Rabbit Room

You are a treasure, Bailey. Thank you for this. 

In another little corner of community, Leslie Bustard shared poems by Gerard Manly Hopkins and Luci Shaw and invited a response, participating in the ongoing conversation of poets through the ages. I was just beginning to process HH (which feels strange because I’m not finished watching and soaking it in yet!) but this poem is what grew out of it…[Read more]

This is timely! Just yesterday I was printing out various prayers to use together at the start of our homeschool day. Yours are just the thing we needed to round out our selection. Thank you!

What a lovely surprise! I am sad for all those who had tickets and will be missing out on the joys of Hutchmoot in person, but my brain is already firing off creative ways to enjoy this in community here. Thank you, team, for dreaming up ways to make this happen!

Kelly, thank you again for writing this and giving words to so many thoughts.
I love that Hutchmoot is one place I can get renewed inspiration and vision for homemaking and motherhood, encouragement and creative thrust for my writing, and new depths of understanding the Bible. This year I was eager to get home and roll up my sleeves again, and I…[Read more]

Yes! This is just the best thing ever.

I cannot thank you enough for your transparency and humility in sharing both your thoughts and what prompted them. I am always inspired when I see people I admire living in submission to the Word and the community of the Church. The truths you have shared are liberating and encourage me in just the places where I needed encouragement. Thank you!

Most of my “free” time this year was spent with my nose in a book, so I will list a few noteworthy non-print favorites and allot the rest of my spaces to the printed word.

Movie: Arrival. This movie really stayed with me in a way few ever have.

Music: Everything by the Gray Havens. On repeat. Followed by everything Slugs and Bugs, also on…[Read more]

We are watching the mail eagerly awaiting ours! The first Slugs and Bugs album came to us at the perfect time in our parenting–when our oldest was in kindergarten. Each album since has felt like a gift to our family. It’s a rare thing to enjoy music we all agree on (even our kids are picky listeners), but the fact that we all love it and it’s scri…[Read more]

This was my first Hutchmoot. At four AM of our first night home, I finally have words:

We gather in a little garden and sit, in a circle, forever friends newly acquainted. The wind rustles the leaves around us and wafts a sweet aroma as the sun warms our skin. We open our crumpled bags and timidly pull out gifts, and we offer them to one…[Read more]

Thank you for this, Helena. I, too, grew up with the first narrative–resulting in a deep sense of guilt and shame and a compulsion to perfectionism. Through a series of painful events the past few years, God began to open my eyes to His great, abiding love for me, even in my mess–His “insatiable desire” for me, as you put it. Even though I am…[Read more]

Aaaaah! I am geeking out over here. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Sarah, for researching this and sharing it. I am just blown away at this answer to my dilemma over the redemptive analogy in my story. It’s a tree. Seriously. And one of my favorite lines so far is this one: “The whole world seemed to revolve around that tree.” I guess the…[Read more]

This gives me chills! I had never heard of Charles Jennens, but I thank God for his work. His story inspires me on so many levels. I’ll ditto @lisa‘s sentiment: may we be as faithful.