I don't resolute. As in, I have no New Year's resolutions. Not once, not ever, have I kept a resolution. In fact, I stopped being able to button my pants BEFORE Christmas, so that is when I reactivated my gym membership. I'm not one to...
Advent - the Christmas season - is my favorite time of year. Mostly because I am a storyteller, and this is the greatest Story ever told. I am in a daze of wonder for the whole of December, star-stricken by the Divine humanity. Sometimes I write about Mary,...
I’ve lost two babes at two different times in the days before Christmas. And so I revel in the humanity of the players. I empathize with young Mary, of course. I keep thinking of her physical feelings, her emotions at being a first-time mother. Closing my eyes...
It’s sweater weather in Virginia ...
“The welfare of God’s kingdom is not dependent on the election of this Kingdom.” This election season has proven exhausting and mostly discouraging if I am honest with you. Laura spoke last week on not giving up - and I’d like to offer you some perspective....
This is my firstborn, she of the sometimes blue, sometimes pink hair, sweaty cloud of curls, and the outsized personality a mirror of my own. We are warring these days and the only winners here are my sin and her tears, and oh how my...
We have four small (well, small and medium) babes that I stay at home to care for. A lot of days look like an endless hamster wheel built of laundry and dirty dishes and cleaning up rooms and whining sessions and screaming sessions. Throw in...
How will you teach your children to see? We spilled out onto the beach overflowing with umbrellas, buckets, chairs, and all the detritus that comes along with a family of five setting up camp in the sand. And my girl, eyes wide seeing the curve of broken...
[caption id="attachment_16365" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Two of my best girls, circa 2012.[/caption] This motherhood gig is a journey ...
Over the past two years, we have made a commitment to redeem the way this family shops. Some one-a person, or many persons-have produced or picked the goods we consume. Persons bearing the imago Dei-dignified, beautiful, and complex. As Christians, I believe we have a Biblical mandate...