by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncatagorized
My husband is a mountain goat, climbing and clinging to the unlikeliest of spots with ease. Our children take after him and as soon as they are able, they scramble after him. Those poor, sad souls who aren’t yet able to climb with their daddy stay behind with me, and...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 11, 2013 | Uncatagorized
Last summer I met the son of a favorite great-uncle. My whole family was staying at a Minnesota fishing resort and when he came by, I, because I don’t like to meet people, at first let my mom go greet her cousin by herself. Eventually, though, I decided to be a...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncatagorized
I made a discovery this morning, the kind of morning that takes place in the middle of the night. The wind from the snow storm woke me up and because it is pointless to live with snow if I am not going to enjoy it, I got up, happy just to be awake while the snow fell....
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncatagorized
I found myself staring at my computer screen, rather shocked at what I had written. What had started out as a simple story about my little girl’s foray into the world with her Pa and how it carried over into our family’s life on the trail had turned, unbidden, into...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 3, 2013 | Uncatagorized
Three simple verbs for this new year: Restore. Retrain. Remember. To remember is the most difficult. Three reminders for the new year: From the Word: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk...