Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a condition found in children who did not form a healthy emotional attachment to their primary caregivers during specific developmental stages in growth. If you’ve dipped your toes in the adoptive world, you probably sensed that it’s a bit of a controversy over who exactly should be given this diagnosis–…
My favorite part about Christmas is the reminder to trace the story again. To remember exactly who Jesus is and what He is doing. It’s why I wrote my advent book, Christmas! which takes children through the story from Genesis to Revelation– reminding them that God promised to make a way for us to be…
I remember it. I remember crying through the night and hating myself when I looked in the mirror and feeling betrayed and lost and hopeless and like there was no reason to even take another breath. It wasn’t every moment, but the waves of depression would come and settle, sometimes for weeks at a time….
If you’re here just for the Peach Pie recipe, here it is (if you want to know HOW I know it’s the best peach pie ever, keep reading): This isn’t a cooking blog, obviously. Around here you’re more likely to cry than be inspired to go bake. I sincerely hope it’s good crying though. Like the cleansing, God’s…
We were standing in Tractor Supply looking at the totes of baby chicks when my husband said it. “You can get chickens if you want.” I looked at him in disbelief. Before we were married he had talked of his abhorrence of chickens. “They’re dirty and carry disease and they cost more than they save,”…
Have you ever been brutally honest and then felt condemned for it? I am often encouraging others to be in community, to be vulnerable with the Body of Christ, to be real. But it’s also true that in being real, we open ourselves wide to people’s opinions and concerns and judgement—which is a painful process….
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