Author: Jaime Hampton

We have several beautiful apple trees in our yard, but one is our favorite. It produces crispy, tart-yet-sweet apples in abundance each year. They’re great to eat, to use in baking, to make applesauce or to juice for cider. But in the last couple of years our favorite tree has had issues: it produces way…

Recently we’ve had some much-needed rain that lasted many days. But just before the rain had started our oldest child mowed half of the lawn. Unfortunately for our next door neighbors it was the half by the street, not the half closest to their yard. I felt pretty bad about it as the rain stretched…

I’ve always been a Martha type. I’m more likely to be “doing” than sitting at the feet of Jesus, even to the point of equating my own value as a person with how much I get done and how well I do it. There have been times of transition from one season of life to…

There are times when we pray for something and God answers with a resounding “Yes!” and we celebrate. Then there are times when He answers with a “No” and we accept it, knowing that His ways are higher than ours. But what about the times when we wear out the knees in our pant legs…