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True Freedom from the Comparison Trap

The playground is fraught with danger. Not so much the danger of falling off of a swing or getting mulch in T's cornrows (seriously...

Worthy. A poem.

“Worthy! Sufficient! Enough!” The deafening refrain echoes round As though on my own merits I am found To be indispensable. Able. Whole....

She Laughs at the Time to Come

“…she laughs at the time to come.” Proverbs 31:25 I have had a very full few weeks. Writing and teaching and planning and erranding and...

All is Grace

I often have thought of my testimony not only as the story of who I was and who God is making me to be, but who, by only by the...

Obedience = Dependence

Every day we see them on their busy quest- robins gathering worms and flying back and forth to their nests. Baby birds are fascinating to...

Simply Obedience

#fostercareexitinterview, Part the 3rd. Flashback to 2013- when we were in the licensure process and blissfully unaware of what lay...

Repentance and Remembrance

Sometimes the books I’m reading simultaneously seem to be speaking to each other... today is no different. Fahrenheit 451 was rather...

Loving is Dying

Motherhood is a gift. Motherhood is hard. Motherhood is a slow process of dying. Loving another this much demands vulnerability, it...

The Broken System

I found it hiding under a chair a few days after he was gone, evidence of D’s developmental stage which includes baby socks scattered...

Brave

We went to a playground today. After probably 18 months of no playground time (between COVID and OH winter before that), it felt...