I have been a mother since June 2015. I prefer they call me mama. But the toddler shrieks and giggles mom. Happy Mother’s Day I find the sentiment sweet. My husband, in all his splendid cookery skills, is planning up something delicious. Maybe even bedside. And I anticipate spending the day with a lot of […]
I recently shared coffee with a friend and we laughed and grieved and grew wrinkled lines of surrender. Our motherhood windows are looking a little foggy these days. Some spots have kid spit licked all over it, other spots stained in frustrated tears with the long hours we’ve sat waiting, and still others with that […]
Four years. (Since I do) Six years, and a little while. (Since that first kiss) They say with a little work and a whole lot of loving, life just gets better. It sure does. And also, gripping Jesus in every step, that’s how you thrive in it. Because the it is packed full of life, […]
“So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross…” [John 19:17] —————————————- There was a cross. A beautiful cross. Cedar. Pine. Cypress. Living wood split wide, cut and framed to carry death. There was a cross. A cross carried by a crowd-watcher, Simon of Cyrene. Compelled to help carry the load, The […]
Statistics say we should probably call it quits. Statistics say it’s risky to love without loss. Life says there will be death. But the life we believe, meets Life everlasting. ————————————————- I’m sitting in starbucks and there’s a couple laying it out on the table. Drawing the fragile lines and boundaries for their coming divorce. […]
Dear Father, hear and bless your beasts and singing birds; and guard with tenderness, small things that have no words. ————————————– There is nothing hidden about the harsh terrain of our world today. There are beasts and there are singing birds. How do you muster up the pace and the space or the good beats […]
#ThankGodForWomen [I’m just going to leave this here. Happy International Women’s Day!]
If you were sitting in my kitchen right now, you’d see my son in the same pajamas as yesterday, eating eggs without a fork because I can’t find it. And he’s sipping day old water, but that’s fine because water lasts awhile, right? My left foot is tapping to the worship I have streaming and […]
As you’ll soon come to find out…I had a lot of time to think about a lot of things, that having been in labor once before, you don’t tend to give a second thought to. Or at least I didn’t. ——————————- I write it for me, not for you. But maybe you need an echo […]
We finally laid out our purposes for 2018. It has become such a sweet tradition for our family the last three years & I relish in the time we set aside to reflect back, hunker down in the present and look forward with great expectation. After thinking it would be tender to have William join […]
