Category: love the Lord your God

  • The Dance.

    When I was younger, I was a ballet dancer. Not a six year old in a tutu, but an eighteen year old with a passion and a drive (and shin splints and blisters like the devil and a diet that consisted largely of Rice Krispies and Diet Coke.) Come close and I will tell you…

  • Happy Birthday: Lessons Learned in One Year of Blogging

    source It’s the one year anniversary of this lil‘ blog! I would love to pass gourmet cupcakes with sparkler-style candles to all of you faithful readers who have returned time and again to read this little journal of Rare and Beautiful Treasures. What a year it has been! I will be real with you and…

  • Let Your Light Shine

    Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16

  • Living House

    “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you know that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.” (The house seems…

  • Time out for Marriage: Or Things To Remember

    My husband has a tiny scar beneath his left eye that is the only visible reminder of his run-in with the chicken pox at age 6. I love that scar. I remember falling in love with that scar some 8 years ago now-as well as the rest of him. As I was laying in bed…

  • Dear Birthday Boy,

    My Dearest A, Do you know that you were born into this world 6 years ago today? And that I remember your first breath? That I memorized the sound of your first cry and the feel of your tiny finger when it reached for mine? Did you know that it has been you and me,…

  • Ordinary Acts of Kindness

    I am so excited to announce the following two ideas! Before the announcements, a “brief” aside: I have written before that I started this blog at a time in my life where I was craving something MORE. I wanted a place where I could record the little, simple, beautiful things in everyday life that otherwise…

  • House on a Rock

    “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. “…

  • Rare & Beautiful Treasures

    A friend made my morning by sending me the link to this Etsy shop which sells beautiful Christian art, including the above piece for which I named this blog! I don’t know this artist, but I think it is just so cool that we both love the Lord and are sisters in Christ. A happy…

  • To Everything there is a Season

    I was in my garden tonight for the first time in weeks. During the fifth week of my pregnancy I experienced complications that put me on bed rest for what seemed like a long, long time. My midwife specifically instructed: “I do not want you gardening.” Ouch. Therefore, what lay waiting in my garden tonight…