When Teens Are Hard to Love, You Love Them Harder
I lay face down on the floor, praying. Praying in the loosest sense of the word. Praying in the Romans…
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I lay face down on the floor, praying. Praying in the loosest sense of the word. Praying in the Romans…
Continue ReadingHow do you get it back? How do you get back the love you once had? Everyone told me marriage…
Continue ReadingThat was not the plan. What just happened in there? We walked out a bit defeated. More than a bit.…
Continue ReadingI came to motherhood knowing nothing about the job. My mother’s example wasn’t an example at all, more of something…
Continue ReadingI grew up in a family where we knew who God was. We went to church, and we were involved…
Continue Reading“I can’t afford a new one,” I thought to myself as I shampooed another stain. This can’t keep happening. Maybe…
Continue Reading"Mom, why aren't you smiling?" My 4-year-old took one look at my face, and like an open book, she could…
Continue Reading“No one’s perfect,” I think. I’m mopping up my overspilled anger like the remnants of an erupted chocolate volcano that…
Continue ReadingHere we are at a new church. Surrounded, again, by people. No one really knows me. They might know my…
Continue ReadingI have three younger brothers, so I know how crazy and wild boys can be. Lots of falls, cuts, scrapes,…
Continue ReadingDo you ever feel like the whole world is having a party—and you weren’t invited Maybe you worry about being…
Continue ReadingI remember my teenage self dreaming, hoping, and praying for a life like I have now. Praying for a man…
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