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SENSE OF PLACE

Jessica Deagle

Ponderings of home, ideas and meaning that seek to provide permanence in an often transient world

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Pursuing Beauty

We went in search of beauty the other day at the Atlanta botanical gardens. I took my older two children downtown in order to escape the...

Planning for Beauty at Home

My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Isaiah 32:18 Home is a big deal. It is...

Longing for Beauty

I love Pinterest. It is my one social media weakness, if it can be called a weakness. One little search and suddenly before me are...

Love Wins

It’s my daughter’s sixteenth birthday and I want to do something special. I want to buy her a small gold heart necklace with tiny...

Redeeming Technology

I've come full circle in many ways throughout the redeeming and re-enchantment of my own education. I have swung left and right with the...

A Similar Thankfulness

One of the best things about my relationship with the Lord is that I can call on him at any hour of the day. Even my husband, who is a...

Holy Habit-ation

What kind of habits lead to virtue? The little round stool in our study at home always contains a stack of about ten books- books that I...

What is all of this Goodness for?

What is all of this goodness for? Virtue is being for something more than against something. When I opened up Netflix one morning I...

Good, Good Family

Can Virtue be taught? Inquiring minds in the classical world all want to know. Plato is famous for his inquisition into virtue formation....

Three Options

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask...

Running with the Horses

For too long I’ve watched my own children as a weight and measure of my value as a parent and a teacher. I’ve imposed this upon others as...

At the Start

In the lovely of the morning There's a beauty still unknown Still the day, still the noise Still my sleeping home The morning's mine 'til...

Hospitality to your Own

There’s been a lot of buzz in the christian community lately around the word hospitality. But I think that is good and founded. You...

The Beauty of the Morning

Come and walk with me into the beauty of the morning. Here the day is new and no human eye has seen it yet. God’s mercies are new with...

Resurrecting Peace

Last night I awoke in the wee hours, anxious and fearful. In quarantine for three weeks now, we’ve had our ups and downs here at home....

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