I was still a child the first time I thought I was ugly. My friend and I were in the church bathroom, standing in front of the mirror, shirts lifted up, comparing our bellybuttons…
-
-
It all started when… Last spring, my sweet hubby surprised me with a gift from some of my family and friends in the form of money to begin working on a new music project.…
-
Gather round, little hens, and let me tell you a Bible story. A very long time ago, some people who wanted to follow God followed Him right into a terrible wilderness. They didn’t have…
-
Two nights ago, we were having dinner with some new friends. After dinner, their just-turned-one-year-old baby boy kept reaching out toward the center of the dining room table, like he wanted something. There was…
-
Imagine someone in your family is traveling abroad, and a terribly destructive, record-breaking earthquake happens in the city they’re visiting. You wait for some time until finally you get the phone call saying your…
-
The day after the babies left, I did precisely nothing productive. I took Bootsy to the pool and when we came home, we dropped our things right in the middle of the kitchen floor and…
-
They came as we were driving away. We had unloaded the babies and all of their things. We had gone over the foster care paperwork with the family. We had gotten hugs and kisses…
-
I keep telling people I’m having like a thousand feels about the little ones leaving tomorrow. Excited they have good family to live with. Many kids are in foster care because they have NO…
-
These sweet little foster babies that we’ve had since March 1 are leaving us on Wednesday to move in with some of their relatives. This is the answer we were waiting and hoping for…
-
The “How It Feels to Say Goodbye” blogs were originally posts I wrote and then published on my personal Facebook page. Some people have told me they might be helpful to other people going through…
-
If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you’ve seen that I’ve got some nifty new items coming to the shop. Ear Climbers! They’re a really fun, simple way to add extra oomph to…
-
My dad is an introvert, and he is the loveliest kind of introvert there is. He is not an insecure introvert or an off-in-another-world introvert or an I-can’t-stand-people-everybody-get-away-from-me introvert. He is a fully present,…
-
Valentine’s Day will be upon us soon, people. I know many of you shudder at the red and pink commercialism of the whole thing. Or you place a hand over your broken heart, hold…
-
God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. {John 4:24, ESV} When I was in college, I took a sculpture class, and for my final assignment I…
-
These lovely things have already been purchased and they now live in jewelry boxes and homes instead of here in my studio. But they’re still fun to look at! If you own one of these,…
-
Have you ever watched one of those horrible hunting scenes where a deer is standing in a field of brown grass, someone shoots it, it goes down, and then it gets up and keeps…
-
Of all the emotions that can pass through the human brain on a given day, I’m pretty convinced that anxiety is the most difficult to deal with. Several years ago, I went through some…
-
You guys. You’re gonna love this. {I hope.} If you are a Jesus person or a church person, it’s probably not news to you that worship is hard. Sure, if you’re climbing on a…
-
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you are listening to a really, really horrible story, your brain kind of glazes over and you literally can not process the thing you are hearing? It…
-
{Photo by my awesomely talented friend, Brian Wolfe.} I remember some years ago sitting in a college class — Writing Fiction and Poetry. Our textbook for the year was a book written by Anne…
-
One year ago today, I woke up in the morning and had breakfast for the first time with a little boy who now calls me “Momma”. I don’t remember what we talked about or…
-
Update: Baby Jace is gone. Let’s turn our hearts to his family now. To his parents, Jon and Lindy, and to all who love them. I really need you to pray. For real. This…
-
This is my husband. Oh. I know. I love him. Very much. He wrote a book. Here are my thoughts. When you hear the word “church”, what do you see? Is it the…
-
“Child prostitution, Rita explained, was simply a way of life in Medina… ‘Everyone’s happy when a baby girl is born…because in around a decade, they’ll have a valuable source of income.’” When I first…