Tag Archives: Faith

Each of us is given a unique story to live. We don't get to choose it. But we do get to choose how we will live it.  The same is true for your kids. Because God is a master storyteller, ...

The first time I visited the Amazon jungle I had no idea the way it would change my life. I suppose it goes back to the idea of how encountering a world vastly different from your own will always chan...

I am a step mom.  If it sounds a little like I’m introducing myself at an A.A. meeting, that isn’t so far away from how it feels. These words often require work for me to o...

“I get the feeling that you really don’t like being just a mom.” The words my husband spoke were concise and piercing.  He had seen something deep in the heart of me, and now wa...

As I drive down the country roads in my town during the morning hours, I see children standing by the road waiting for their school buses.  The younger ones look tiny and scared in their bulky ba...

I don’t remember very many nights over the last year, that I haven’t gone to bed, feeling like I wasn’t enough. Every night, with kids tucked in, my mind has raced over the day, reca...

My luggage got lost today. So here I sit, in a random hotel room in Randomville, USA with no clothes. Or shoes. Or hairspray. It’s knocking on the door of a lot of my insecuri...

Now, it wasn't rocket science figuring that a kid might be sad when half his village was about to float away; call me discerning. It's just that all the other kids seemed to be managing, as if floodin...

It's that time again. Lunches are packed, carpools have begun and it's the beginning of the year where we mark that next step of growth in our child's life. (Some of us have a marked up wall in our ho...

To those of you who grew up in a kind, Christian home, you are truly blessed.  What a gift your parents gave to you (it’s a gift I tried to give to my children).  To those of us who di...