My coffee was growing cold where it sat on the arm of the Adirondack chair. I stared across the fields where windmills spun along the horizon. I didn’t want to pick up the coffee again. I knew it would taste bad. I knew the moment the liquid hit my tongue, the nausea I was ignoring…
During my single years, I would have told you I knew marriage wouldn’t solve all my struggles. Of course not. I wasn’t naïve. I understood that marriage brings its own issues and building a family with someone isn’t just aromantic drive on a starlit night. No duh. But now, looking back, I did kind of…
Amos finished putting up hay last week. Although we rent out a lot of our land now that we don’t have cattle we still put up crops for our sheep and to sell. Baling hay is such a fascinating process. You chop the grass all apart, let it sit in the sun for hours or…
I’m thankful God is patient and kind and longsuffering because I’m pretty sure if He wasn’t, He’d get tired of my prayer cycle. I know it’s a cycle and it’s about a month to 38 days in length and it starts with me praying that I’ll get pregnant again, followed by sorrow that I’m not,…
I received my Grandma Polly’s Bible after her death. In fact, it was just the next day when all her collection of Bibles were brought out and I was told that I could choose one. I gathered up the one she had been using most recently and glanced through it. There were lists of favorite…
The book of Ruth begins with barrenness. The land is barren as a famine sweeps through, and Naomi, despite having born children, is now a childless widow. The truth of the matter is that Naomi thought her story was done. She was Marah, Bitter, and the life she dreamed of was shattered around her—the pieces…
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