“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” William James … Read More ›
Author: Alisa Ruddell
Alisa Ruddell is a homeschooling mother of four who lives in Charlottesville, VA with her husband Steve. She loves classic literature, reading aloud to her children on the couch, and listening to Charles Dickens novels while going about her household chores. Writing helps her to connect the dots between everything she reads and her day-to-day life.
A few years ago, suffering and death took a sledgehammer to my neat little map of reality.
Each year when Advent begins, my heart circles back to the Incarnation, to the mystery that is God’s body. As a part of my practice … Read More ›
“She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth– ” The woman of Rainer Maria Rilke’s love … Read More ›