It happened over a decade ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Less than a year after my husband accepted his dream job in the National Football League, working for a coach he admired, our staff was fired. I was devastated. I grieved for my husband and for my son, who would now…
“Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.” (Ps. 90:1 ESV) My husband and I aren’t big celebrators or gift-givers, but on our twenty-fifth anniversary, he made a book for me. It was a countdown of things we had done over the years, from “Twenty-five years of marriage” to “One love of my…
I’ll never forget the day I missed my oldest daughter rolling over for the first time. My precious baby was in good hands, of course. My mother-in-law was watching her downstairs in our living room while I worked upstairs, futilely trying to run a nonprofit from my home office right after giving birth to my…
Our boys are twenty months apart in age, and when they were young, we lived in a small town that required us to drive about twenty-five minutes each way to the grocery store. Once, after this half-day event, I was loading groceries and kids into our car on the cusp of meltdowns into our car…
My girls are sixteen and fourteen, so we still have a little time before they launch into the world on their own. My goal is that they will be confident in their worth and in their identity in Christ. I have been grateful for the parents who have shared their wisdom along the way, helping…
“Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” (John 14:12 NIV) I had a friend in high school with a white Camaro. Classic car. Meticulously restored. White-glove-clean inside and out. But whenever this…