An email came from a literary agent. A book proposal hurriedly composed. Edited. Reexamined. Sent out. A writing sample was requested. A meeting was held, a team deliberating over taking up the project. The factor that did or didn’t seal the deal? Platform. Its the buzzword of this blogging, tweeting, social media dependent culture. Your […]

We didn’t get what we expected. But now we wait in expectation for what we will get We will get Strength when we have none. Faith to ride the storms. God moving, moving in our children, when I’m rendered too weary for the job. Order when I can’t be the one to enforce it Joyful […]

Friday we had our final adoption home study meeting in which our caseworker came to our home to approve it as safe and suitable for the addition of another child (we will be paper-ready by next week!).  One of the last interviews was that of our children to ask how they felt about adopting.  Being […]

In the hustle and bustle of the holiday, instead of worshipping a peacefully sleeping babe in a manger, the goddess of Productivity is worshipped. In the effort to make the most of the season, I fail to make the most of Him. All the plans and the scheduled events and the purchasing and the preparing, […]

WHY do I live where I live? Because I’m lazy. Too lazy to load up five kids in to the van and tote them over to a church service project.  Too lazy to get up on a Saturday morning and head down to the soup kitchen to serve a meal.  Too lazy to try to […]

You’re Daddy made this video for me, on our fifth anniversary. I pray you will be in the pictures when he makes one for me for our tenth. My precious child, I’ve been praying for you. I don’t know what you will look like. I don’t know what skin color you’ll have. I don’t know […]

I’m so glad kids have short memories… The day after this failure, the girls were climbing into bed and Trinity said, “Mommy, you’re the best mommy in the world.“ and Katy-Grace was quick to follow up with, “Yeah, Even though you sin, we STILL love you.“ unmerited grace from these little ones, refreshes a mamma’s […]