Our wedding party was chosen, the invitations mailed, and the menu set—after months of planning, it was show time! The “happily ever after” I’d always dreamed of was days away. The only thing in our way? A wedding crasher named “Hurricane Hanna,” scheduled to hit...
She’s been with me 13 years now, a little blue bird who lives on my dresser right beside little bowls of loose buttons and the rose my husband wore on our wedding day. She’s remained through a move and many binges of decluttering. In honor of this new skin on the old...
When I first came to India, I was full of ideas and dreams. These dreams included a lot of me, a tinge of adventure, visions of dozens being rescued and redeemed, and a good God writing a sweet story with many happy endings. I knew I followed a God who redeems, I...
While the dreams of my peers were just beginning to bud and flourish, my twenties began with a nightmare. Just months after stepping into this new decade where the dreams of youth were supposed to become the substance of life, I received a wound that was deeper than I...
On the night of April 21, 2008, I stood in an outside courtyard at UCLA Hospital. A group of nearly 100 friends encircled me, some weeping, some silent, all in shock at the unexpected place they found themselves ending what began as an ordinary day. Two floors below...
