Have you heard about my newest project? It’s called Early Morning Read Alouds. In these daily Facebook Live videos, I sit at my kitchen table (after just rolling out of bed around 4:30 a.m.) and share my heart and writing. I love doing this! And I am honestly a little surprised that I have been…
Tag: Christian family
The Woman and the Seed, A Parable
This is a true story. It is the story of a woman who fell in love with a man. She married him with a certain picture of what life would be like in the back of her mind. It looked like a garden in springtime. Everything beautiful was in bloom. Every bird was singing. They…
Looking for a House and Finding Home
I have opened my heart up to want this year. One day in early January, I woke up with the clear vision that this house is never going to be ideal for our family. And I began to want something better. When we bought this brand-new 2-bedroom, 2 bathroom house as nearly newly-weds, we saw…
Family and Flexible Vision
I wish that I could find a (nonexistent) journal entry from back when I was in college where I said something like: “Ten years from now, I can see myself…” And then I described the vision of my life. The vision I had before marriage, before kids. Wow. That would be good for a laugh….
Living by Faith
About a month ago, we found out that I am expecting again. This will be five children in 7 years. (I’m sure many of you reading this are having a gut reaction.) It means that I have been pregnant or nursing now nonstop since early 2007. It is a lot to take in. It is…
Family Love, A Study in Mathematics
People keep asking me if we are going to have more children. The question ranks up there–probably around number 4–on the list of my daily-smalltalk-with-a-pregnant-woman chart. {(1)”How much longer?”( 2) “How are you feeling?” (3)”Are you so ready to have that baby…?” topping the chart…} The top three questions are easy to answer. {(1)”I have…