Marnie Hammar
On the Legacy We Leave
This year, when we piled everything into the car for our vacation, we added all five sets of golf clubs. As much as I don’t love how much...
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Marnie Hammar
Jul 9, 20202 min read
God's Work When Goals Sit Dormant
It’s been sitting there since March, its teal linen cover collecting dust, and its spiral-bound, tabbed pages stuck in the past. Every...
Marnie Hammar
Jul 1, 20202 min read
The Ministry of the Ordinary
I feel it slipping away. Like an unstoppable tide, I see reopening arriving, and I fear what it will take with it as it rolls back out....
Marnie Hammar
Jun 2, 20202 min read
The Little Big Things We Share
I walked into my office and found a yellow sticky note with a tiny penciled apology from my nine-year-old. During “school” at home that...
Marnie Hammar
May 29, 20202 min read
Let Me Take and Eat
Every day they come, this family of deer that lives in the woods behind my very suburban house. They live in a small, narrow strip of...
Marnie Hammar
May 18, 20202 min read
The Beauty Inside This Chrysalis
As I look out the window—the view from which has become a gift—and see the sidewalks that connect to the places I remember, I feel torn....
Marnie Hammar
May 18, 20204 min read
On Longing and Abiding
[This post was featured over at The Joyful Life Magazine on May 15, 2020.] A year ago, my husband and I looked at each other over our...
Marnie Hammar
Apr 17, 20202 min read
On Being Overtaken
For this suburb dweller, the winding country roads I drove offered refreshing contrast to my side-walked, manicured normal, with their...
Marnie Hammar
Apr 15, 20202 min read
Lessons from Not Liking Birds
I don’t like birds. ⠀ ⠀ It’s a whole long tale that goes back to when I was 5 and there was a crow stuck under a bucket in my sandbox....
Marnie Hammar
Apr 4, 20202 min read
Still He Commands the Sun
I slowly walked through my local grocery store. After seeing that the toilet paper aisle was empty, I filled my cart with an attempt at...
Marnie Hammar
Mar 30, 20202 min read
Reclaimed, Not Perfect
When we chose the worn table that sits in our kitchen for sharing our family meals, we chose weathered barnwood beams that had lived a...
Marnie Hammar
Mar 21, 20202 min read
A Softer Way for Wounds
We stood at the kitchen island cutting vegetables for dinner when I looked down at my youngest’s hand and saw a weird, gray spot. I asked...
Marnie Hammar
Mar 14, 20202 min read
Throwing Darts, Receiving Grace
My middle son and his friend were playing in the basement, throwing darts and larger objects that should not be thrown—like plastic...
Marnie Hammar
Mar 5, 20202 min read
On Measuring Ourselves
As I round the corner, I see my youngest holding a pencil and a cloth tape measure. He is leaning up against the molding that marks the...
Marnie Hammar
Feb 2, 20202 min read
The Beauty in our Winters
It was winter when my grandfather died. As I prepared my heart for that goodbye, I bundled up for a brisk afternoon walk in the woods....
Marnie Hammar
Jan 19, 20202 min read
Shiny Shoes are Should's
I remember those shoes. They were glossy white, patent leather, with straps that slipped into tiny buckles adorned with sparkly...
Marnie Hammar
Jan 12, 20202 min read
His Majesty for Just Me?
I felt like a little kid when, on a recent flight from Ohio to California, I snagged a window seat. I’d look out and pretend that I knew...
Marnie Hammar
Dec 12, 20192 min read
Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him
I stayed up late again to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie, ignoring the pile of dishes that had crawled from the sink to the counters....
Marnie Hammar
Dec 5, 20192 min read
Lift Your Gaze
As the number that is my age climbs higher, the number of times that I can go around in circles sinks lower. So when we went on a fall...
Marnie Hammar
Nov 21, 20192 min read
Looking in the Right Place
"Navy blue soccer sock, we know there are eight of you in this house, and yet, you have succeeded in eluding our search efforts once...
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