In every scraped knee, and “mommy, my belly hurts.” In every text from states away with request for urgent prayer, and in the circumstance from a few bedroom doors down in need of urgent prayer. In every lingering chest ache, stirred up by an absent-minded...
[Continuing the conversation from earlier this week …] Her hurt hooked me in, again. She looked down and my heart picked up pace. Years of training selflessness, teaching them about a heart focused out and up (not in), were challenged in the face of this child,...
It was the end of a long day. You’ve had them. I was minutes away from leaving the house for a Bible study. A way out — an unfiltered thought I received. Mistake #1. Though the scenery might change, I couldn’t leave my heart at home. She was...
My mommy and daddy love me soooo much! she penned across the page of her own moleskine journal. It was a long night, with a fresh new ending. He was making her new and working from the inside out. She took a misstep, we course corrected, and she had sunk deep instead...
“I just heard the sweetest sound,” she sent in text. I’d been praying with her for weeks, since her body first revealed signs of new life, inside. On the heels of two miscarriages, this mama walked headlong into her fears, declaring into her heart a...
We found each other when life felt carefree, untainted, and we forged a sisterhood over late-night daydreams of changing the world — and sugar. A decade-plus spanned the distance between those high school nights and when we were later reacquainted. As we caught...
