As I sit here with tears pooling in my eyes on the eve of my first-born’s graduation from high school, I have a million thoughts in my mind that I’m trying to trap long enough to put them into words for you. Yes, YOU, Sweet Mama. I’ve been thinking about YOU a lot over the last year as I’ve been Continue Reading →
This is just about right. This is the way she walks out her life; right on the edge of the boundaries. Daily, as we walk to therapy, I remind her of the simple rule of staying on the trail for her safety, but every day she either walks right on the edge or pushes those boundaries by walking with one Continue Reading →
There’s a lot I can say about this prayer that was woven together out of need, but sometimes less is more. I’m just gonna set this prayer right there, propped up on your screen, just in case you might need it too. Surely I can’t be the only one… Jesus, I praise you for knitting my children together as siblings. Continue Reading →
As I recently celebrated my anniversary with my superMAN, one of my heart friends is in the last days before her wedding. Many an early morning we have had Bible study via text and in that time of processing what He’s teaching us through our different stages of life, she has challenged me to meditate on my marriage and consider Continue Reading →
As I sat in my chair praying over what was to come in the new year, my thoughts running here and there like wild horses at the fresh, new opportunities, I corralled them in and found myself praying, “Lord, this year, I just want to learn how to be a better pray-er.” Off went my wild thoughts again, conjuring up Continue Reading →
I remember writing out this prayer out for my children when they were little because I simply wanted them to obey me and make good choices as they grew up. As they are in their teen years now and growing into who they want to be based on the foundation we’ve laid for them and what they see around them Continue Reading →
Here I am in that place again. The one I find myself in frequently where I’m stressed and exhausted mind, body and spirit. I suppose this is the way of a mother, especially when there’s six young lives to shepherd and a marriage to keep tended to. I’m tempted to check-out mentally and sink into the oblivion of nothingness, but Continue Reading →
The restoration message in Joel 2:25 has been one that I have prayed over my little girls that we adopted from Eastern Europe. Adoption has been a beautiful, but hard road containing many unspoken things–things that people don’t want to talk about and would rather I’d sweep under the rug. Some of these things I talk about anyway for the Continue Reading →
Love. I thought I knew what it was until God began giving me opportunities to dig deeper on this one in study and in practice. Love is something that can be so simple and yet so complex at the same time. The quote above from Billy Graham resonates deeply with my Spirit. It has become the heart of me. Simply Continue Reading →
I believe that prayer works. I believe that prayer matters. I believe that God wouldn’t ask us in His word to pray if it wasn’t important. And yet, over the past few years, as I walked through a difficult season that lasted longer than I was comfortable with, I wrestled with prayer. His word promises that He hears us, but I Continue Reading →