The Problem of Pain
Year after year, I keep going back to The Problem of Pain C.S. Lewis. I’m a self-described Lewis junkie so it isn’t really a surprise that I continually am reading his books, but this one I feel...
View ArticleMore Than We Can Handle
We had an incident this week that involved an attempt to throw a five-pound hand weight up to the top bunk bed. I now have one very remorseful son with bad aim and another extremely forgiving son with...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of Happiness
There’s been a lot of conversation floating around about happiness lately. Much of it is due to Victoria Osteen’s comments about God being happy when we are happy (more on this later!), but the truth...
View ArticleGrace
I am alive. My husband is alive. My kids are all alive. I am so incredibly thankful right now. Usually the first Monday of the month I post about one of my favorite influential books, but Saturday...
View ArticleWhere to Run
This is a difficult post for me to write not because the subject is difficult, but because I’m writing while in the grip of much pain and in the fog of medication. Such is my situation right now due to...
View ArticleThe Easy Way
I adore my three-year old. Jackson is hilarious, loving, and preciously protective of his siblings. He is still three, though, and doesn’t like going to bed. He really doesn’t like being put to bed for...
View ArticleInvisible
I love working in Photoshop; in fact, it is one of my favorite parts of my job. I get to take images and pull out the beauty from them, add text or graphics, and create. The way the program works...
View ArticleThoughtful Reads: Till We Have Faces
This post uses affiliate links. For more information see the disclosure policy. Learning To Live Five years ago this week I lost a friend. The word friend doesn’t seem to even adequately describe her...
View ArticleKicking the Fridge
A friend emailed me this week and invited me to an online event on Friday night. I told her that I would love to be there, but Brian was going to be a men’s camping retreat with church so I was going...
View ArticleHow to Be the Village
This post contains affiliate links. For more information see the disclosure. It’s March. Unfortunately, the weather hasn’t realized that it is already spring and yet, snowflakes danced around my kids...
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