The past three months I’ve collaborated with gifted writer, speaker and all-around awesome friend Maralee Bradley on articles over at Her View From Home.

This month’s post—Church of the Plastic Bags—is particularly poignant for me as I’ve literally received plastic bags (and paper ones and boxes and furniture deliveries) from friends as we’ve welcomed a foster child into our household. Our church community longs to help. They love to help. They give and give of themselves and never ask anything in return. It’s remarkable, this evidence of Christ-like love for one another, this giving and not expecting anything back. And you know what else? It’s incredibly humbling to be on the receiving end. It’s humbling and something in me desperately wants to give something back so I feel like we’re even. But that’s not the point! Give, give and give some more. Without expectation. With a lot of grace. With joy. Thank God for these women in my life. They are the hands and feet of Jesus to me and my family.

November collaboration: A Musing Maralee
December collaboration: Our Christmas Miracle

You can find Maralee blogging multiple times a week over at A Musing Maralee and, from what I gather, her voice also graces the radio waves of My Bridge Radio.