Even When Your Arms Are Empty, God is Still Good
I stared at the ceiling in the dark emergency room with as much strength as I could muster. I knew…
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I stared at the ceiling in the dark emergency room with as much strength as I could muster. I knew…
Continue ReadingIn July 2014, our 25-year-old son Ryan (my stepson) was killed when the gas can he was using to light…
Continue Reading“Lord, help my unbelief.” I pray this at least 500 times a day. Sometimes more. Living with the struggles of…
Continue ReadingIt's every parent's worst nightmare: the death of a child and the impenetrable grief accompanying such a horrific loss. Grammy…
Continue ReadingYou came into our room during the wee hours of the morning. You’d had a bad dream and wanted your…
Continue ReadingI pray that I won’t spend my whole life teaching my children how to look like a Christian. I don’t…
Continue Reading[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Stop being a butthole wife. No, I’m serious. End it. Let’s start with the laundry angst. I get it,…
Continue ReadingIn the 1980s and 1990s, my mom and dad were my Sunday school teachers at different and repeated times throughout…
Continue ReadingIf you’re anything like me, the first thing you see when you take a look at yourself is how unworthy…
Continue ReadingDear daughter, You did something hard today, sweetie. Really hard. Your heart was tightly wound around all those fleshy feelings…
Continue ReadingThere is no denying it. There is something about a fixer-upper story that pulls us in. If we scan the…
Continue ReadingSometimes, he leaves his clothes all over the bathroom floor. So, I pick them up. Sometimes, he leaves beard trimmings…
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