I don’t need to look at pictures because I hold snapshots in my heart. I close my eyes and picture my son running down the hill with a star-spangled top hat perched on his toddler head. The next year he holds hands with his sister, with red, white a ...
Our Journey with Anxiety: A Mother/Daughter Perspective
I'm not sure how old Shelby was when I noticed that her emotions were deeper and more sensitive than most. But I do recall arranging and rearranging her stuffed animals A LOT to get them in just the right spot so she could sleep. Perfectionism is a ...
Dear Friend Who Doesn’t Like Mother’s Day
The greeting card aisle is going to be packed this week at the grocery store- dozen of folks swarmed around to find just the right words to stick in an envelope. It's coming Sunday: Mother's Day. This is the day we set aside to celebrate moms and ...
The High Cost Of Community
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." - Hebrews 12:1 If yo ...
The Hallway
Today is "D Day": Diagnosis Day. Twenty years ago TODAY we heard the words “Malignant.” It was December 10, 1997. I had survived a four hour surgery. I was eight months pregnant and our daughter was still alive there inside me. The ...
A God of All Seasons: My Heart Behind the Book
My co-authored book with Tammy H. Meyer launches in just about a month! I wanted to share just a little of my heart behind this work with you, my friends who have followed this blog for several years. So here's my heart behind this book: I ...
Sunset
It’s the longest day of the year. The sun is still hanging above the cornfields and the stalks are not tall enough yet to silhouette the sky The earth and sky touch with no interference. I stand on land that I knew as a child, my grandpa ...