Full and Fun February February weather is always a little challenging. Despite the extreme temperature changes (and confused seasonal affective disorders) we still had lots of fun with our tribe this month, enjoying our indoor hideaways and some outdoor sunshine. We frequently sit back amazed at the beautiful community God has orchestrated in our midst. …
A Joyous January! We are frequently having conversations about God’s faithfulness, goodness, and grace that He has shown us through each day with our crew. Through the hardships, the victories, the challenges, and the celebrations, we are so thankful for a God who sees us (Gen 16:13), who hears us (Gen 16:11), and who desires …
MONTH IN REVIEW: December, 2022 What a Plentiful December! We are absolutely blown away with the way God has moved and orchestrated this wonderful tribe over the past year. Everything from community meals to our first women’s retreat; from long Zoom meetings to celebration dances over grants; from celebrated sobriety dates to some of our …
A FLYOVER OF NOVEMBER Over the last year of living out The Desens House mission, we have seen women change. We have seen women pick up the shattered pieces of their lives and choose to start over. And they have. They have moved into independent living, they have won their children back, they have gotten …
A few years ago I purchased an awesome sweater. It was wool, hand-spun from adorable doe eyed Irish sheep…and then a few months later, in a moment of preoccupation, I threw it into a load of laundry with my bedding…and it came out looking like a straitjacket for a two year old. For years this …
As a military wife stationed in Germany, I was a part of a women’s bible study. One week we decided to clean the house of a woman in our group who was afraid of losing her infant son to Child Protective Services. Her baby was failing to thrive. At four months he weighed barely ten …
