I can do anything for a season. This became my survival mantra during a particularly difficult season in 2016 after a 600-mile move from Pennsylvania to South Carolina, downsizing from a 2,000–square-foot house to a 1,200-square-foot condo, a change in vocation (and drastic cut in income) for my husband, and me leaving a job where…
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24 NASB) Here’s the rub: You’ve done your job as parents, and now your children have left to establish a family and/or life of their own. Whether they’re single or…
This year my oldest child turned eighteen and graduated from high school, and it was harder for me to let her take this step into adulthood than I thought. From the time we became parents, part of my and my husband’s parenting philosophy has been that we are raising our children to leave us, to…
As we sat around the living room, the Christmas tree still aglow four days after Christmas, warmth from the fireplace heating the room, providing softness to all it touched, my husband held up the corner of a dining room chair for inspection. It now lacked the protective cap on the end, causing it to bobble…
I think I was born loving shoes. In a box somewhere in the attic, I have a pair of white leather baby shoes with my name in gold-leaf on the soles. My habit throughout childhood was to go to sleep with new shoes placed in their box, the lid off, by my bed so that…
I dislike change. I really do. I like everything to stay the same. I enjoy predictability. Well, I used to dislike change and enjoy predictability. Lately, however, I have been feeling a strong urge to make a big change—what that change is, I don’t know. I have prayed about it, and I feel like the…