I’ve been living in a state of deconstruction for four years. It’s not the first time I’ve described my life in this way, though, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. The first deconstruction began nine years ago and focused on my heart. God was dismantling the lies I believed about myself and the…
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” (James 1:2 NIV) My family is really picky about food. When I talk about this pickiness with other mamas, I usually get a good bit of sympathy, confirming the extreme…
Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? (Job 11:7 NASB) My greatest joy in homeschooling is learning alongside my children. We start our day with a practice called Morning Time (although my kids say we should call it “Any Time” because it doesn’t always happen in the…
“On Wednesday morning, the first rays of sun were peeking around the clouds,” my daughter Charity wrote. “I swung my legs over the edge of the bed. Strange dizziness clouded my mind. I have a fever, I thought. I must be getting sick. Objects around me seemed to move with each turn of my head….
I have a habit of falling in love with houses over the internet. We made an offer on our last home before ever seeing it in person. Something deep inside me shifted when I saw the listing appear within our search criteria. We’d found home. My husband found our current home—also on the internet, of…
“So how have you been?” This is usually the first question Heather asks as we begin what will, most likely, be a ninety-minute phone conversation. Most of our nine-year friendship has been built during phone conversations. We started out living in the same state, just forty-five minutes away from each other. We got together often,…