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Continue reading →: Maybe You Can Forgive YourselfI’d decided to meet a friend and her kids downtown at the Science Center even though the thought of just getting there aggravated my ever-present anxiety. In the 7.8 million person Asian metropolis where we lived at the time, our two best options for getting downtown were taxi and subway.…
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Continue reading →: A Bucket of GraceSome people seem to do just fine with a ‘lil trickle of grace. They don’t seem to have a lot of needs. They appear to have their “ish” together, as they say. I am not one of those people. I usually feel as though I’ve got needs coming out my…
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Continue reading →: Crows and Locusts: A Drafting Desk Blog Guest Post
There’s an old Brooke Fraser song called “Crows and Locusts” that I don’t think I ever really understood, except that it’s been swirling around in my head as I study Galatians and talk to my counselor and sit still enough to think about what’s happening in my soul. “It was…
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Continue reading →: Gospel à la Gilmore Girls
Near the end of season 2, Lorelai, the protagonist of one of my all-time-favorite shows, Gilmore Girls, is graduating from business school. She returned to community college as an adult, after leaving high school when she got pregnant with her now sixteen-year-old daughter, Rory. To set the scene…
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Continue reading →: I Am a Good Mom.
These five words have begun changing everything for me. Maybe for many mothers those words are not that big of a deal. But for me, they are darn-right revolutionary. They literally declare war on a set of beliefs, fears and insecurities at the very center of my soul. Last year, I…
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Continue reading →: My Body, Broken: A Kindred Mom Guest Post
“My body is broken, ruined.” This became the overwhelming thought of despair in my mind more than a few times in the weeks following the birth of my second daughter. After being miserable during the recovery of my first delivery, an unwanted c-section, I’d insisted on a VBAC for my…
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Continue reading →: Death and ResurrectionA little over a year ago, at the start of Lent, I was in Thailand. Surrounded by the beauty and glory of Creation, my soul usually feels most alive, and yet, all I could see — all I could feel — was death. Months earlier, my dear friend lost her…
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Continue reading →: I Want to Run
Yesterday was beautiful. The sky was blue-ish, the sun was shining and it was the warmest day we’ve had in a long time. Come to think of it, for the wild and free heart, it was a let-your-hair-down-and-just-run kind of day. And my sweet girl stays pretty tuned into her wild…
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Continue reading →: Remembering I’m Rich
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” After praying that God would make these words true for me as a wife, mother, friend – person – I’ve been wondering what holds me back from this. Why don’t I behave on a daily basis like this is true? I…
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Continue reading →: On Being Home
I recently experienced a revival of sorts in my mothering. And my life – especially my life (and my mothering) overseas. Don’t get me wrong: mothering is the hardest thing I’ve ever done (as much as it’s also the most awesome thing I’ve ever done) and most days involve some…
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