When I was twelve years old, I started a newspaper.
The Argyle News was a publication reporting on the latest happenings in my neighborhood, which I printed and took door-to-door down Edgewood Road in my rubber boots. I reported on lost dogs and lost kites, bird sightings and repatched potholes.
The stories were terribly ordinary, but my neighbors kept asking for more. It turned out that ordinary folks wanted to read about other ordinary folks like them, who had to fight the Midwest heat and get new septic systems, too.
For seven years, I printed the Argyle News until 2017, when blogging seemed like the next cool thing, and I decided it was time to start. Nearly nine years later, I’m still writing about ordinary people, ordinary places, and how God’s grace brings an eternal beauty to it all.
I’m married to a pastor from the Arkansas River Valley, where we keep bees, try to garden in summers that are as thick as honey, and serve at Lee Creek Baptist Church.
I love the local church, trust the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture for all of life, and I believe it speaks to the most ordinary corners of it.
“God Himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is,” wrote Martin Luther, and I believe He can also bake the bread, plant the garden, and show hospitality through us ordinary folks who are consecrated to Him.
The New Creation in all its beauty begins today, on Tuesday morning.
I hope you’ll come in through the screen door and join me in my kitchen, my garden, my home, as we watch Christ bring His kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
I may not go door-to-door, but these days, you can get weekly mail from me in your inbox:
- Stories of grace in ordinary life
- Devotionals for the church
- Recommended books, articles, & podcasts
- Recipes
- And lots of gardening, sourdough, canning, beekeeping, & homemaking fun stirred in.
In grace,
Bethany J.
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.“
Isaiah 55:10-11
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