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You should know first of all that I like to write letters. I write them weekly and mail them out into the world through substack. If you would like to have them delivered to your mailbox, subscribe below!

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Mini-podcast on marriage, learning to love in a new way, and a read-aloud about having tea with my 22-year-old self in this week's substack letter. (Letters from me to you, linked.) Things I Love, June Edition This is what I want more than anything else—to hear God’s voice. It is what I desperately need as a woman, a wife, and a mother. New podcast linked in bio. Umbrellas Journal Now Available! (Search my name on Amazon or go to the books link in my bio to buy from me directly.) Love is an ocean. I say this to my 17-year-old self, who, in a hologrammed memory, is just stepping out of the car and walking into a conversation that will change the course of her entire life. She doesn’t know that the stranger with square glasses in the Reeses Peanut Butter T-Shirt who just asked a casual question will ask a million more before the story is over. They will all roll in like waves, one after the other, every single day for the rest of her life. That voice will etch itself into the very shoreline of her life, asking things like: What are we having for dinner? Did you check the mail? Do you think it’s a boy or a girl? In May of 2018 I lost a baby that I will always miss and carry in my heart. The following May I delivered a baby boy, our Rune. The mystery of it takes my breath away. Here are a few thoughts from my journal, written in between the grief of losing a child to miscarriage and the joy of seeing a hope fulfilled. Rune's birth was life-changing for me. You can read more of the story in today's Letter from a Sacred Everyday Life. (Substack link in bio.) There are days, as a mother, when you want to be done. Not permanently, of course. You just want to take a short break so you can be something else that you are—a daughter, a sister, a wife, a friend, or even just a plain old self. You want to have a conversation without interruption. You want to enjoy celebrations and events that are happening all around you, that you physically attend without really being there. Instead of sitting down and catching up at the family reunion, you are chasing a toddler, wrangling a baby, changing a diaper, taking people up the hill to the bathroom, keeping people out of the road, applying eye drops, setting boundary lines and enforcing them. You are looking in four directions at once while trying to hold eye contact with a person you have not seen in 12 years. Things I Love, May Edition Book Signing May 9 at Yonah Coffee in Demorest. @yonah_coffeeandcafe Drop in any time between 12:00-2:30, have a cup of coffee and pick up a signed copy of my new book and companion blank journal. Both would make great Mother’s Day gifts. I hope to see you there!

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