Rumbling tremors beneath the foundation of our home started in our son’s preteen years, but a tectonic shift changed the course of our parenting when he turned 18-years old, when he started floating away, an island all his own. This continental drift, an initiation into manhood, for daughters, womanhood, means we no longer reign over …
My husband has a big heart, yet sometimes he over-extends himself by giving too much, sometimes at the cost of his own time and well-being, which sometimes impacts me — like it did this weekend — but not in the way I thought. On Friday afternoon, he told me wouldn’t be home until late that …
Have you ever experienced scripture jumping off the page onto your lap, surprising with unexpected delight, a delight similar to how you might feel if a baby kangaroo leaped out of a bush onto your lap while you sat on a bench in a park? Scripture has the power to elicit such abounding joy from …
Days before an annual Academy Awards party at a friend’s house, I went to see Lion with a dear friend to catch up on movies I hadn’t seen. All I heard about Lion was that it was an adoption story. Little did I know by the time I left the theater, my heart would be …