I had never experienced anything like it. I was in labor with my second child. Naively, I thought that the second labor would be like the first—some pain, a doctor visit to check progress, a trip to the hospital, admittance and assessment, epidural, baby. In my mind, I never entertained the idea that the second…
“I’m just not sure how to move forward with her,” my friend Sarah said. She had been telling me about recent struggles with a family member. Sarah and her relative were coming to the table with different perspectives, and I honestly didn’t know if they’d ever see eye to eye. Age, family dynamics, and desired…
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set…
I am a mom to four kids, and my oldest started high school this year. While she has an old phone with no data service, we have never allowed her to have social media access. My first excuse was that Instagram, the app that interested her, says you need to be thirteen years old to…
One thing has struck me as I look around my backyard, thinking about a new year: nature cares nothing for the issues that got us so riled up in 2020. The steller’s jay screeching in the fruit trees doesn’t give a rip about who filed what lawsuits. The spruce trees waving in the wind couldn’t…
“The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one. Everything was created through him; nothing-not one thing-came into being without him. What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by. The Life-Light blazed out…