love poems
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Nine Years of Love, Life, and the Northern Lights
On the Eve of our 9th wedding anniversary I found myself taking photos around our house of the home we’ve built together. I don’t have many words this year, but the photos tell the story in their own powerful way. While I’ve lacked words to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary I wrote a poem a… Continue reading
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A Happy Woman!
Motherhood is no longer the effortless softness of a new, fresh life season for me. But there is a triumph to it. There is a commitment to beauty. A realness to the glaring magic spread long and loud between the harshness, loss, and brittle elements. And best of all there’s a knowing that rattlesnakes, difficulty, wilting, and… Continue reading
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What Does Love Feel Like?
When the question was posed, “What does love feel like?”—all I could think was it feels like seeing a cool bird and wanting to tell him about it. A few weeks later, I would listen to my son sing his own original song, Honeybird. I made up a few verses which made his world. And… Continue reading
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Swan Song of a Scarecrow
In a whirlwind of happiness following a long season of infertility, Sierra finds herself fearing the future, sudden loss, and figuratively holding her breath for things to fall apart. It is in these years of pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood where she deeply learns to fully embrace God’s good gifts, and to run headlong into… Continue reading
