Tag Archives: Faith

As the year draws to a close, many of us feel the weight of what we've walked through. Maybe it was a year of unexpected loss, unanswered prayers, or battles you never saw coming. Maybe it was a year ...

We have a joke in our family. One of those things that didn't start out as being funny, but as the years have passed, I can finally see the humor in it. I became the family matriarch at quite a young ...

Last year, at our church's Candlelight Christmas Eve service, I struck up a conversation with the woman sitting next to my family as we were all getting settled in our seats. She commented on our four...

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2:7 There was no room for Jesus at the Inn...

This week I've been learning that regulating my emotions is active not passive. I have to act on it, it will not just happen by itself. After I got done asking myself why I have to do hard things, it ...

We turned off of our street on the island and began the long climb over the expansion bridge. I'd stuffed photo albums, my wedding dress, some baby items, and important documents in the back of our SU...

"When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they lack wisdom and behave like fools." 2 Corinthians 10:12 To paraphrase 2 Corinthians, those that compare themsel...

The holidays are almost here, and that means juggling school concerts, baking cookies, gift lists, and about a thousand other things. Yet in the middle of the hustle, there's a deeper longing: to make...

Don't you wish you knew when certain life events were over, like the last time you would visit a place or the last time you would see someone? Maybe we would pay special attention if we knew we were e...

Every November, we celebrate Adoption Awareness Month - a time to honor the brave stories of families who are built in all kinds of ways. It's also a month to recognize the countless children still wa...