love story
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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
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If I Wrote a Love Story…
If I wrote a love story, I’d start it on Mother’s Day. A garden would begin from a grocery cart and a broken heart. The daisies would be half-price. There would be hope. And it would take awhile. There would be no time for cliches. There’d be too much life, too much hard, too much… Continue reading
