There are many parts of parenting that are hard. I don’t need to tell you that. The whole world is more than happy to trumpet…
The Foggiest Idea
Spring on our farm means three things: rain, mud, and fog. The rain and the mud are necessary evils. The fog? A fantastical delight for…
The Blessing Nobody Asks For
I don’t know about you, but I knock on God’s door multiple times a day asking for His show of favor. Patience, provision, peace, understanding,…
Signs
As a parent, I fret over the small stuff. Oh, I invest plenty of hours praying over the major details. But I major in the…
Pain With a Purpose
There have been exactly seven times in my life that I have wholeheartedly embraced the pain God put in my path. The other million and…
Someone has to be the baby
This fall, I hit an uncomfortable, inevitable milestone: for the first time in our marriage (barring the gap of our own making), our baby is…
The Road Not Taken {for homeschooling moms}
(with apologies to Robert Frost) Two separate paths diverged in life, And I knew I could only take one Homeschooling mother and also wife— A…
Nooks and Crannies
Sometimes we have to stay focused. Sometimes we need to think bigger, and to forget the small things for a season.
In His own words
About six years ago, I realized I had fallen into a trap. I had become an avid consumer of devotional materials… and a very poor patron of…
War and peace
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt,…