Remember When Back to School Felt Easier?
I sent my kids off to school today with cotton masks to protect them from the brokenness of the world - a flimsy shield indeed.
I sent my kids off to school today with cotton masks to protect them from the brokenness of the world - a flimsy shield indeed.
The chasm Between you and I Can be crossed by love But not by words
Your life will be filled with celebrations, and the best ones are never the ones you plan with great expectations.
In all my striving to fill my calendar and optimize my entertainment, I was, in fact, missing out on quite a bit.
We can all tell that the world is broken. It doesn't help anyone for Christians to say, "No, no, the world has been redeemed."
We claim to feel overtaken by anger, but often we manufacture it to propel us out of something less comfortable.
I have sowed in tears, and now I am beginning to discover the tender shoots that are springing from those precious and mysterious seeds.
His words land like a punch in the gut. It is the second night in a row where panic attacks have kept him from sleeping - my second morning
The day she was born, we dressed her up immediately. And before the day ended, we changed her outfit just for fun.
My daughter's known world is this: When a movie ends, you race up to the front of the theater and dance your heart out through the credits.
I know how it feels to have to stop praying, to stop asking, to accept the hard "no" that has come from the God you love.
For the most part, the world stopped believing in "women's work" quite some time ago. Every man I know is willing to change a diaper, do the
The shortness of these children’s lives does not diminish the love we have for them or the grief we carry in their absence.
I've become more sensitive to the awe-inspiring truth that I didn't create my children, and I can't see the full timeline of their lives.
What if we don't only worship what we sacrifice to? What if we also worship what we sacrifice for?
Today, we took a photo that makes us proud. It captured a moment 14 years in the making. As we took the photo, I wondered what I would say w
"It's okay, you take the big kids on the water slide, and I'll stay here with the babies." I wanted to go down the waterslide too, but I
I have a good father. I realize this makes me lucky. My children have a good father too. Not everyone can say this. I know there will be...
Ryan and I cuddled under a blanket, watching the latest episode of our favorite show together on his cell phone. "His birthday was March...
Zoe means "abundant life." 7 years before my youngest child, Zoe, was born, I was pregnant with her older brother Isaac. We were told...