It was a Saturday morning when we found out our baby wouldn’t live. I was at Gary’s drinking a cup of bitter coffee when the phone call came. I walked outside, wandering down the street and out beside the movie theater, where a few trees and scattered patches of grass grew despite the shade of the…
It’s raining today. Big splashing drops that play music on the windows. They’ve been coming and going all day. I heard them when I woke up this morning and walked through the house, picking up the random pieces of life that hadn’t been cleaned up before bed. I felt them later as I drove the…
The Israelites left Egypt, all its four-hundred-years of slavery and hardship and brokenness. They followed God. They really, really did. He was leading them with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. And God led them right to the edge of a sea, and in the distance they saw the army…
Last week we celebrated the one year anniversary of the day we brought our daughter home. First of all, I can hardly believe it has been a year! Seriously. And then, at the same time, I can hardly imagine our family without our bubbly little girl. She has been such a blessing to us– and walking…
I still smile every time I see them. Of all the things my daughter owns, I can’t get enough of those peach knit mittens. The year before she came we traveled to Kodiak, Alaska to visit a friend. It was the year of the lost-daughter and I was still struggling to relearn how to breath after…
They promised him a ticket to the United States of America. The land of opportunity. The whole family took part. Everyone worked extra hard and pooled their money. They turned it over to the travel agency, who gave them one ticket. The plan was for him to go and then, in the land where money flows…
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