Some days it feels like I am trapped in one of those revolving doors at the entrance of a fancy hotel. Except my life is anything but fancy. The door doesn’t lead into a beautiful hotel lobby. I just keep spinning around and around, faster and faster, from the laundry room to kitchen to car! …
“What’s for dinner?” my husband asked. “Nothing. Just, nothing!” I sputtered out with a bit of impatience and frustration. My husband broke into a fit of laughter on the other end of the phone. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. So I asked him, “When would I have had time to think about …
“While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” – Luke 15:20 Being lost is scary. Who doesn’t remember feeling alone, being disoriented, and finding yourself disconnected from what is secure and …
“I am so sorry.” Once again I lay on the ultrasound table staring through tear-filled eyes at the doctor. She had no explanation, but to tell me that my child’s heart had suddenly stopped at twenty weeks. “I just don’t understand why,” she said. “I am so sorry.” Just like that, I was thrown back into familiar territory …
I am thankful that God did not give up on me. I did not grow up following Christ. I remember, as a child, feeling like there was something more to life. I would write my prayers down, though I didn’t know God yet. I was someone that you would think of as a “great kid” and I …
When I look past the never-ending, daily,mundane, do-I-have-to-do-it-again tasks of my days as a mom….when I really look past them, I am struck with an overwhelming sense of urgency. An urgency in my being to “prepare” my children for life. Real life. Sure I prepare them for life in the everyday circumstances. But do I REALLY …
Just the other day, after a restless night of sleep, cut short by my son Noah’s growing pains in the middle of the night, I crawled out of bed. I muttered a few unintelligible words to my husband and left our bedroom. Then staggered downstairs. After making a cup of coffee, I plopped on the …
