In Praise of the Honest Mistake: How Mistakes Open Doors to Grace
After whirling down the basement steps on tiptoe, I opened the washer’s lid to shift the clean clothes to the…
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After whirling down the basement steps on tiptoe, I opened the washer’s lid to shift the clean clothes to the…
Continue ReadingIf you grew up in the Church in the late 1980s to the early 2000s and you're a woman, this…
Continue ReadingSweet friends, Do you ever feel like you’re not good enough? That you somehow lack God’s favor and don’t deserve…
Continue ReadingDear momma who’s afraid she’s doing it all wrong, let me tell you my story. My firstborn son arrived on…
Continue ReadingSurrender is scary. Giving in feels like defeat. Even when I know it’s the right thing, yielding everything to God…
Continue ReadingHi, my name is Emily, and I am a struggling perfectionist. Even as I write those words, I squirm a…
Continue ReadingAfter my husband soared to Heaven eight years ago, my three daughters and I found ourselves on an intense grief…
Continue ReadingSeated at the sunroom breakfast table, mouth full of Special K, I glance out the row of windows. A flutter…
Continue ReadingI've always been a teeth grinder, especially during times of high stress. Striving manifests itself physically through my teeth and…
Continue ReadingMotherhood–like marriage–reveals the sin within me. I complain, I worry, I’m selfish. I yell, I compare, I’m quick to anger.…
Continue ReadingWhen I brought my firstborn home from the hospital, I taped a poster next to the changing table that had…
Continue ReadingWhen my head hits the pillow each night, my mind fills up with all the mistakes I've made that day,…
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