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Choosing Hope

By: redtentwomen October 11, 2018October 10, 2018

Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, The HomeFaith, Family, Home, Homeownership, Planning, Remodel, Renovation, What If2 Comments

Today, we made an offer on a house in the hopes that it will be our home. Surrounded by great towering trees, the house is a classic ranch-style home built in the 1960s. The prior owners started remodeling it so that it feels more contemporary. They tore down the original interior walls and opened up…

Homesick

By: redtentwomen October 30, 2017October 29, 2017

Day to DayChristy Barber, Colorado, Hiking, Home, Homesickness, Longing for Heaven, Moving, Restoration3 Comments

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Our family had intentionally gone to church early that morning so we could head out into the beautiful Colorado Mountains and explore what God had for us. The sky had my favorite wispy clouds streaked through them.

Make Yourself at Home

By: redtentwomen August 17, 2016August 16, 2016

The HomeAdair Swayze, Beauty, Belief, Faith, Home, Hope, horse farm, Hospitality, self-care, Singleness, Unexpected, welcome4 Comments

There is a place near my home that I am drawn to on days when I am in need of respite. It is a place that feels sacred to me, hidden as it is in a sprawling neighborhood.

A Sad and Believing Heart

By: redtentwomen January 20, 2016January 18, 2016

Travel, WholeheartedBethany Cabell, Bethel Music, Dreams, God, Home, Lament, Loss, music, suffering10 Comments

The beginning of a new year often brings a renewed sense of hope for the year ahead.

Tilling the Soil

By: redtentwomen April 14, 2015August 3, 2015

Day to Day, GardeningChange, Gardening, Home, Prayer, Valerie Avery6 Comments

It’s really early in the morning. Most of the world around me is deep in sleep.

Homecoming

By: redtentwomen October 7, 2014August 24, 2015

Day to Day, Traveldepression, Home, Kindness, north Michigan woods, sabbatical, Valerie Avery7 Comments

I left my nine month old home with Grandma and joined friends at a resort in the north woods of Michigan back in 1967.

By: redtentwomen May 16, 2014September 1, 2015

Literature, The HomeColorado, God, Home, Jan Meyers Proett, Lazuli Bunting, Moving, Wild Jesus20 Comments

We moved over the weekend. This means, of course, that I do not know the location of my favorite brush, or the mustard.

TAMALADAS – A GIFT OF LOVE

By: redtentwomen December 11, 2013September 17, 2015

RecipesChristmas, Cooking, Ellen Oelsen, Food, Home, Latin American, Tamale4 Comments

We prayed before they left that God would bless their hunt…And I waited.

Gratitude for a Certain Puffy Shirt

By: redtentwomen November 25, 2013September 17, 2015

Day to DayFamily, Grieving, Home, Maureen Gebben, Parent-in-law, Parenting, Remembering, sew5 Comments

I was a new bride and I didn’t know how to sew.

Coffee, Complexity and Conversation

By: redtentwomen October 31, 2013September 18, 2015

Day to DayBig Families, Children, Coffee, Coffeehouse, Empty Nesting, Family, Home, Menopause, Tracy Johnson8 Comments

In downtown Kalamazoo there is an odd little building nestled on a triangular piece of land where we could meet and share a cup of roasted goodness inside the Water Street Coffee Joint.