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Things to Remember
On Saturday there were tears, and maybe some gnashing of teeth, as worries over children and their character overwhelmed. As some problems were brought to light and as the new school year looms...
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For When You Wear Regret Like a Robe…..
While on vacation Matt told me about an article he had read, written by someone who regretted saving herself, her virginity, for marriage. And I laughed and said that was the dumbest thing I’d ever...
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A Letter to My Daughters {God’s Love}
Girls, Two weeks ago I turned thirty-seven. I wanted to write then, but as you know, there hasn’t been much margin in our house for several weeks (years?). And the words, they often come slow for me,...
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Wait
For two weeks she wrestles with insignificance and discontent and the desire for more out of life. And she wonders where is the line between contentment and complacency, between feeling settled and...
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A Choice
She wrestles through the weekend with thoughts of inadequacy, fear, and restlessness. Tears fall and doubts creep in. And on a Tuesday she decides to call it what it is: a battle for her heart and...
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When you just need to embrace the struggle….
It’s five days til Christmas. One Christmas movie has been watched. Our Advent calendar sits, lagging chronically three days behind. So does our Ann Voskamp Greatest Gift book. We haven’t baked a...
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Weeks in Review: 2014 {Weeks 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, & 52}
Here we are. December 29. The year is almost over. The past few weeks have been….interesting. They’ve been crazy fast and unbelievably long. It never really felt like Christmas and yet Christmas is...
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When You’re Afraid to Really Fly – My Word for the Year
You don’t think of yourself as fearful. You have faced big things and overcome. You have put up a fight and don’t back down. You are stronger for what you’ve been through. You do not cower or run. A...
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A Mental Reset
Matt sent me away for overnight last Friday. He reserved a hotel room here in town and told me I was to go, read my Bible, drink some wine, write, and pray. I was in need of a serious attitude...
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When God Feels Like an Enemy: An Update on the Past Six Months
In casual, everyday conversation, depression serves as a good synonym for sadness. In this sense, it’s simply a mood state we all experience from time to time, typically after we’ve brushed up...
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Brave Trust: Stay Soft {One Word for 2016}
2015 gave the word brave and it had its own anthem: I stand before You now The greatness of your renown I have heard of the majesty and wonder of you King of Heaven, in humility, I bow As Your love, in...
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When Grace Shines Through
Barely old enough to buy the champagne we toasted with, we took vows and we promised forever and I felt safe and you had hope and we walked back down that aisle with grand plans but no idea what the...
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Coming Home Again
Gosh I’ve missed this space. Coming back here feels like walking into a former home, like a going back in time. I am not the same person today that I was when I was last here. The past few years have...
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Strings
Adoption comes with strings. And those strings are often a tangled ball of yarn. Or maybe it’s more like fishing line. Strands wrapped together and around each other so tightly you cannot tell where to...
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A letter from a younger me
Dear Sara, Someday you will be 40 and only weeks away from graduating that curly-haired girl you call your oldest; that girl who was just in grade school yesterday. Life is going to change a lot...
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On Haiti and Trusting God in the Fires of Life
A little over a week ago I landed in Haiti prepared for a normal week on the ground with a team comprised of a few Haiti veterans and several newbies. Little did we know what was about to unfold as our...
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