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To imagine my newly married days with an older child that we've just adopted, who also has some special needs, seems mind boggling. I've met a woman who knows the grace of God for this very moment. Mamas, when you eke out that "this is too hard" cry, remember there...

Though we only just met this fall, this next author-friend feels like an old friend. Judy has been a beautiful encourager to me in my writing and her own story, that you'll get a taste of here, is full of time spent in the waiting room and the richness that comes from...

If you've been around my blog for a while, you've heard me mention Amy Julia Becker. This past fall, her book A Good and Perfect Gift -- about how her experience with disappointment turned into overwhelming blessing -- sat on my bedside table for a few weeks because I...

For the month of May and a week into June, I will be pressing pause on my online writing and this space will become a series of testimonies of what He births in the midst of delay, perplexity and pain. Author friends from around the world who love words on a page, and...

The stairwell down to our basement has a mantel full of pictures from our past. From college days to wedding to pre-child ski trips and post-child trampings through fall leaves, we have nearly two decades covered. There is one in particular that tells a certain story....

The scene was familiar, only slightly more intense than the last time. As our house becomes her home, what's buried down deep begins to find its way to the surface. Pain has a buoyancy. When I came upstairs he'd been holding her for nearly an hour, my child,...