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Continue reading →: When a Lot *Doesn’t* Happen in a Year
Haven’t we all said it? Or hoped it? Or desperately wished it to be so? “Well, a lot can happen in a year!” But what if it doesn’t? Or doesn’t feel like it does? How do we watch friends and family go by without us? Survive another night feeling left…
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Continue reading →: Wintry, Bitter Seasons
Garden Lullaby, January 4, 2019 First thought: My little January overachiever. Second thought: Resilient with life! Third thought: Life with God means springtime can happen IN JANUARY! Anticipate God. He works deep in your wintry, bitter seasons and pops up daisies through the cracked concrete of your heart. It will…
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Continue reading →: Why I’m Still Writing about Infertility
“This is no thaw. This is spring. What are we to do? Your winter has been destroyed, I tell you! This is Aslan’s doing.” I have never read the entire Chronicles of Narnia series, but this year, I put them all on my reading list. I read one or two…
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Continue reading →: For Young Mothers
people say so many things. . .like you’re in a game you cannot win,like your life has all but ended.but maybe motherhood is a mosaic,a hard wrought, stained glass windowwhere tears and laughter collide,where wounds reopen in the workingand glisten if light filters through. I am cut, reshaped, pieced back.…



