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When You Struggle with Faith
Indigenous to the area, the invasive runners threaded their way across our backyard--overtaking the softer variety planted by the builders. Within months, our patch of land transformed into a drought-tolerant, child-friendly rectangle of green able to...
Down the Tubes or Secure in Christ?
"You did WHAT?" I asked my fifteen-year-old son. Rushing into the restroom, I peered into the white bowl. Shaking my head in disbelief, I sighed and turned to Seth. "I'm sorry, honey. PD Bear is gone." Connor had unceremoniously flushed what remained of his...
The Honest Truth
I burst into laughter when I saw this note online. I knew it was one my own children might have written. Lie #1--"Who put this hole in the wall?" Not me. "Right..." Lie #2--"Why did you miss 7th period?" I ate something bad for lunch and fell asleep at my...
Just Be
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God..." Psalm 46:10 Scchloop...Did you just hear it? That was the sound of my last bit of energy being sucked away. Do you ever feel the same way? Are you running in circles just trying to keep up with life's business when...
Top Ten Signs You’re the Mother of a Baby
10. You would rather sleep than go out for a relaxing dinner with your husband. 9. Previously a fashion statement, scarves now camouflage everything from leaking breasts to baby spit up. 8. Eating something from the baby's high chair tray qualifies as your lunch. 7....
Welcome Home
"Nobody called me," I said to my husband. "I feel marginalized--like I'm just not important enough." The news I'd been waiting for...praying for...never came. Instead, it was announced like a headline to the rest of the world--on Facebook. Feeling...
The Promise of Freedom
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa "Did you believe the lie?" I asked. Surveying the room, I knew many of the women...
