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Continue reading →: It Takes a Village: 3 Reasons to Parent in Community (for FamilyLife.com)
If you came to my house and listened to me parent, you’d hear several things I’ve robbed and duplicated from my village. My kids are called “lovey,” and I say, “That was kind,” instead of “nice” because of my friend Erin. “If you choose to disobey, do things go well…
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Continue reading →: What Makes Your House a Home?
Chances are, at some point in your life, the idea of “home” will feel a bit complicated. How do you go about making your house a home? My 7-year-old daughter has lived at least six places in her short life. So recently when she listed “mom’s arms” as her safe…
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Continue reading →: 6 Prayers for Marriage When You Need a Miracle (for FamilyLife.com)When I tell the story of God pursuing me, I usually tell how He miraculously answered my prayers for marriage … my parents’. My parents’ marriage was often a battleground, the “D” word (divorce) brought up often. The summer before my 7th grade year, it felt inevitable. I headed off to…
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Continue reading →: The Good News for an Unhappy Marriage (for FamilyLife.com)An unhappy marriage is a form of suffering. But while culture suggests we avoid suffering at all cost, Scripture offers a different take.
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Continue reading →: Breathing Toward Freedom
I breathe in God’s graceI breathe out God’s loveSit for a sec to remember thatYou love me becauseYou love me Me, who chooses ‘perfection’ over freedomWho changes her color like a chameleonMe, who alternately struts and hidesfumes and criesnumbs and chases highs I try so hardI’m so tired of trying(I…
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Continue reading →: Stranger Things Holidays: Like Home Alone, But Without the Feel-Good EndingWhen my firstborn daughter was one, we moved approximately 8,000 lonely miles from all our friends and family. After 32 hours of travel, we arrived to our new country, on her first birthday (we did celebrate that occasion with loved ones before we left). Her birthday falls on Halloween, so…
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Continue reading →: Grief at Christmas: Where God Meets Us (for FamilyLife.com)
If grief is a mighty river, most of us live the majority of our days from the safety of the shore, where the occasional strong wave laps at our toes. But inevitably, at some point in our lives, we’ll find ourselves in over our heads, choking on grief’s bitter water…
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Continue reading →: A Prayer for Tired, Weary ParentsI don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling pretty worn down recently. Pandemic, politics and parenting have my baseline anxiety a bit higher than normal — I’ve been catching my jaw clenched, my breath shallow, my back sore with tension. When anxiety is high, my threshold for other stimuli…
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Continue reading →: All or Nothing
There have been a few seasons of my life where it became clear: if Jesus isn’t who He says he is, then I am to be pitied among all the world, as Paul said to the Corinthians. In other words, I’m wasting my life, wasting this pain, hardship, struggle, loss.…
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Continue reading →: 4 Ways to Stop Toxic Thoughts During the Holidays (for FamilyLife.com)
The holidays are stressful. Schedules and to-do lists are packed, we see people we don’t often see (like your cousin’s father-in-law’s nephew), and there’s pressure to make everything magical for everyone. And while there are plenty of things vying for our mental and emotional attention, toxic thoughts don’t need to…
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