flashback.

I’m an Indian gal with funny ideas about life, married to a charming American tentmaking campus missionary with the surname “Smith”, mama to the loveliest bright eyed little girl and the sweetest twin baby boys, born to dream + create, and born to radically love. I’m a lover of Jesus, trying to become the Proverbs 31 lady, and living life in the process. And always, devoted to the art of handmade.

pro-LIFE. that nifty guy from Nazareth. finding a course worth running. fabric shops. daring adventures with Greg. ethnic India. dodging cars on Mass Ave. herbs. the book of Luke. documentaries. cupcakes. antiquing. the camera. pottery. sewing. venturing. weird people. domesticity. freshly picked raspberries with cold milk. looms & wool. indie. photojournalism. folk music. fields of lavender. creating.

"He is the Vine, we are the branches. When we're joined with Him and Him with us, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant." [The Message]

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"Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert."

"One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple."

"Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you for the LORD is a God of justice; how blessed are all those who long for Him."

"He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God; who considers God in every thing, who serves God in every thing, who makes all the parts of his common life parts of piety, by doing every thing in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.” William Law