One of my close friends from church has been struggling with infertility. Knowing that I, too am walking this road, she often comes to me with her thoughts and doubts. She made the comment recently that she is jealous of me because I am at peace with is and she is not. This particular part…
“Will you be my Mommy?” I’ve never been asked this directly, but it is something my heart has been hearing a lot these past few months. My husband and I are two years into an infertility journey (if you want to call it that). We have not sought answers from doctors, nor do we know…
“I’ll take that one,” said the tanned, surfer-haired teenage boy. He sounded cocky. I shifted uncomfortably in my shorts and old navy T-shirt, all long legs and freckles and sunburn and salty red hair. I stood beside a few other friends, lined up against the wall in a crowded hotel lobby like we were in…
The Glorious Table is excited to welcome Kerstin Lindquist, a journalist, television show host, and author of the recently published 5 Months Apart, to the table today. Being angry with God is okay. I was. For a long time, I blamed Him. That time was the furthest I have ever felt from my Lord, but…
“I want your life,” she said. “I’m jealous of what you have.” We were standing in my kitchen, looking out over the farm I have lived on for just under a year. Our husbands were out with the hens, moving them into a newly built egg mobile. My four kids were scattered around—two helping catch…
“Wow, you really have your hands full.” “Are you running a daycare?” “Are they all yours?” I heard all these comments during one afternoon of grocery shopping with my children. Four children five and under will do that to people. But what people don’t know as they watch me maneuver through the aisles, one child…