Once upon a time, I was an adventurer. I was fearless. I lived each day to the fullest. Carpe diem and all that. I climbed mountains and flew across oceans. My passion to share Jesus was a fire burning, and I wanted to spread it across the world. I prayed aloud all the time, whether in…
On May 1, I gave birth to a nine-pound, ten-ounce baby boy at home in our bathtub. Amazingly, he was born en caul, which means my water never broke. He was the fourth baby to have been born in that tub, and the eighth baby to join our family. When my husband and I got…
My husband embodies wonder. Have you ever known someone like that? When he’s driving, he will pull over and get out to take a photo of anything that strikes him as beautiful: clouds, fog, trees, water. When I’m rushed, this tendency of his annoys me. When I am present in the moment, I giggle at…
“There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.” ~Zora Neale Hurston A decade ago, I attended a dear friend’s wedding and watched him marry the love of his life. My heart burst with a ridiculous amount of joy for him and his new bride, and at the same time I felt a…
Our family attends church service most Sundays. We are involved with small groups and serve within the church body. Our family is also a stateside missionary family. We have all of this “involvement,” yet my kids still had a difficult time understanding or even remembering the miracle of Jesus not being in the tomb on…
“Preach the gospel always, if necessary use words.” ~St. Francis of Assisi I’m a therapist at a hospital. Recently, we had an irritable, uncooperative patient who was putting everyone on her floor on edge. She yelled at every staff member who came into her room. She not-so-politely asked me to leave and not return. At…