Anxiety Makes it Hard To Go Back To Normal Life
It’s been one year . . . and I’m still in quarantine. I’m still isolating myself and my children. I’m…
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The Last 6 Months Have Taken My Anxiety To a Whole New Debilitating Level
172 days. That's how many days since my last Starbucks drink and boy, how much life has changed since. I…
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Facing My Fears as a Rainbow Mother
It is late 2014, and I wake from another restless sleep. I am pregnant with my first surviving baby. I…
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In Dark Times, God Reminds Us: No Shadow Lasts Forever
Beep, beep, beep. I remember the sound of my heartbeat monitor like it was yesterday; how it felt to be…
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God Sees You, Mama—And His Grace Covers All Your Fears
God sees you, mama of the toddler and the infant, wondering if you could ever possibly be enough for the…
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I’m Afraid To Drive
I was 23 when I finally got my driver's license. I am now 26, and this is my hand after…
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Dear Kids, I Want To Be There For it All
I will never forget the day I received a phone call that my biological father lost his battle with the…
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Little Kids Can Have Big Fears—Let’s Show Them a Bigger God
“Mommy, I’m shaking.” His little hands gripped the handlebars as he pushed his bicycle up the hill and away from…
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Fix Your Eyes on the Faithfulness of Our God
“This is getting crazy,” my husband said to me one night while we sat at the dinner table. “Stop talking…
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It’s Our Job as Parents to Carry the Weight of the World So Our Kids Don’t Have To
I was eight years old, sitting in elementary school computer class with a friend (no doubt playing KidPix, Oregon Trail,…
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