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When’s the last time you've been truly desperate for something? A love returned, a paycheck to provide food for your family, or maybe for God to return a wayward child? You can hardly breathe due to the tension wrapping its gnarly fingers around you. You find yourself...
Louis tells me I think too much. He’s probably right, but I was two months shy of my 41st birthday when my last baby was born. I was a mother with children at home for a long time. This quiet, full-of-peace life I enjoy these days is the first in over thirty...
How could I, who felt worthless, gain value? Whether it is pride or the self-deprecation (even outright loathing) that often masquerades as humility, anything that is focused primarily on self is going to miss the source. So I found myself in the same trap so many...
I removed the makings of a nest. Several times. But then I got sick, and when I made it back to the box in the side yard, they'd laid their eggs. Cream-colored, speckled brown. And so I left them. And watched them. Since they were busy here, I reasoned, they'd leave...
A brilliant New Testament scholar once asked a group of us what is the most...
I can’t tear myself away from the Weather Channel. Away from the photos and...
God sends the stormy wind of his providential and painful visitations,...
[serialposts]They mother the motherless, the mamas in this orphan village. The...
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