Before I sat down to journal out my memorable moments of 2016, the details seemed a bit blurry. In prior years, the months and days were carefully counted to track my son's journey with epilepsy. The amount of time he'd been seizure-free was a running stopwatch in our lives. A stopwatch held by a giant named epilepsy. Isn't this so true for the different giants we face in our ... Read More
Mothering Matters
The room felt as though it was empty. The vacant corner bore no evidence of what had once stood there. No one would know what took place in that space. The bending, the rocking, the praying, the soothing, the tears, the countless sleepless nights; and the numerous loving looks exchanged that needed no words, because outstretched arms said it all. You are mine. I love ... Read More
Longing to Belong
Don’t we all long to belong? We want to feel like we fit somewhere. That we have a place. What we long for is community. We want to learn from each other without judgement. We want to be heard. To be understood. We want to know, we're not in this life alone. Some of the loneliest places can be found in women’s groups at church or in ministry settings. We all long for community and ... Read More
Prayer. A Risk Worth Taking.
So much happens in a year. A new year is a chance to begin again, a fresh start in your story that's already ongoing. However the things that are most life altering are often the things we have the least control of. Both good and bad. In my little world, something monumental happened in the year of 2015. In my ongoing story. In my son’s ongoing story. In my family’s ... Read More
The Mystery of Pregnancy
You’re late. More than late. You stumble out of the bed to go to the bathroom and it dawns on you that this is the best time to take a pregnancy test. So you rummage through your medicine cabinet hoping you have one more pregnancy test leftover from the 3-pack you bought last month. YES, you find it -- you feel like you just struck gold! You take the test and wait. The default line ... Read More
Embracing Trials
My husband found himself in the office of a neurologist this year. After a thorough examination the doctor, confidently, thought Andrew had MS. This led him down the road of ruling-things-out which meant appointments, blood tests, a spinal tap and 4 MRIs. I found myself clinging to my word, embrace. God showing me how to grab hold of truth in the midst of the uncertainty we were ... Read More