Nepali Hindus just finished celebrating Tihar, also known as the Festival of Lights, and on the last days of the weeklong celebration they decorate their…
The growing tension
For mothers, there is always a tension in reconciling the boy we have known and the man we see. For years, I struggled to understand…
Loss
It doesn’t take much to send me hurtling back to the moment I realized that the baby I had only just begun to accept as…
Lost in transition
We have to find a new church, and that just sucks. This isn’t because something bad happened. No. Our church was great. It’s just that…
Open the eyes of my heart
The hardest part of being here is seeing. Seeing the need. Seeing the disparity. Seeing the vain devotion. Seeing the truth.
Christmas in the air {elementary edition}
Let’s be honest: the elementary years are just plain fun when it comes to buying gifts. You probably don’t need a whole lot of direction…
Christmas in the air {high school edition}
Teens are notoriously hard to buy for. The assumption is that a CD with a $20 bill taped to the front cuts it– or, on…
{Work in Progress Wednesday}
“Knitting is cheaper than therapy– and you get mittens.” – Anonymous (Work in progress: A simple dishcloth of my own design in Lily Sugar ‘n Cream Psychadelic. The pattern…
Rhythm
I know it’s months (years?) away, but there will be a moment when all the things that right now feel so huge and different and…
Christmas in the air {middle years edition}
So you’re thinking about Christmas now. And you’re wondering … what on earth am I getting for my 12 year-old? Another Minecraft t-shirt?