Folks on Facebook hop into this thing during the month of November and give thanks throughout the month leading up to Thanksgiving. It's fun. I've hopped on the bandwagon for a few years. I tried this year, with good intentions, but life got…
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 I had a friend, whom I love dearly, and…
***I was sitting down to write down some thoughts I had been thinking about and saw this is my drafts from four years ago. I still feel the same way about the letter. Grief looks different for all of us. Death, expectations unmet, divorce,…
Marriage. In my generation it's a big word. A word that has a ton of meaning. A word that isn't respected. A word that is shallow to some. A word that is full of commitment, or a word that doesn't have much because folks…
Nine years ago at 4:30 AM on June 13, 2005, we had a little girl. She was a 31 week preemie. She was crying when she came. She was 3 lbs 11 oz. She was itty bitty. She was a sweet, itty bitty little…
Sometimes kids show up that we didn't expect. Sometimes they come with a lot of surprises. I know that mine have. Each and every one. One showed up with a whole lot more then what we bargained for. But they all have surprises. In…
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of going out with two other moms who have sweet little girls with Down Syndrome. They're a little bit new to the game, so even though they are older then me, I'm the "elder" (which is just…