When the Magic Fades and January Settles In
January always feels a little strange, doesn’t it? The lights come down.The wrapping paper is long gone.The calendar turns a…
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By Sarah McPherson Seeing Her Children Suffer Hurts a Mother’s Heart
Another seizure. I watch my daughter’s face crumble. Not just from the pain, but from the weight of it all,…
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By Jaree Williams Even on a Mother’s Hardest Day, Her Children Are Watching
The sun was warm that morning. I was outside with the dog, rooted in the grass, soaking up a rare…
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By Taylor Evans Healing Doesn’t Mean Feeling Happy All the Time
I used to think healing meant always feeling better. That if I did enough—read the right books, prayed the right…
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By Jennifer Thompson Life is Good. And It’s Hard.
The good things in life are also the hard things. Raising children is good. And it’s hard. Marriage is good.…
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By Kelsey Geiger To All the Mountains I’ve Ever Moved: Thank You for Making Me Brave
To all the mountains I’ve ever moved: The ones that tried to break me. The ones that left me breathless.…
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By Sarah Nichols The Older Your Kids Get, the Lonelier Motherhood Can Feel
I cried to a friend most of the way home from school drop-off a few weeks ago. “I wish others…
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By Deborah Ackerman When Life Fractures Us, We Keep Going
Back in early June of 2021, there was a first for me: dealing with a fracture. Not me though, my daughter. Montana had…
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Sometimes I Want to Skip This Part
Kelly Clarkson’s new album Chemistry is about the arch of her relationship with her husband and their divorce. The first song…
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By Melinda Dueck This Will Not Last Forever
"This will not last forever," I wrote those words on the unfinished walls above my daughter's changing table. For some…
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Sometimes Friendship Is Tested
Sometimes our own experiences can be hard on our friends, especially when those experiences have to do with fertility and…
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Even When You Don’t Feel Him, God Is With You In the Valley
When my mom died, I was sure I'd met my quota for hardship for the rest of my life. One…
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