Exhaustion pulls and weighs me down,Dinner is done and everyone disappearsLeaving dishes and clean upTo my tired mind. Can’t they tell I need help? Can’t they see the weariness Pressing into the creases of my browAnd the lines of my downturned mouth? I can call them, name by name,Bring them back to do the choresThey…
Since Daughters of the King released last year, I’ve found that a lot of people aren’t sure what an allegory even is–especially an allegorical fairy tale! So I wanted to share this first story in the book with you (there are 5 stories in all) to give you a glimpse at the type of storytelling…
“Mama, read to me,” her little voice says. When I glance at her, she quickly tacks a, “Paleeaassee” on the end of her question. I stare at her tiny face and feel a bursting of joy. I have work–both writing and housework–but these moments are so short, so few. I leave it all to take…
God is never mentioned in the book of Esther. We have this whole story, this entire book of the BIBLE, and God isn’t mentioned even once. And to be honest? It’s a hard story. The king of Persia is a drunk who likes to party. His advisors are power hungry men who are afraid of…
“She’s not coming home,” I whispered to my husband on a quiet August afternoon in 2013. It was our first failed adoption and when we got the email that our placement had fallen through—everything in my body went limp. I thought this child was the one who would usher us into parenthood, but instead, the…
I sat in my parent’s office that afternoon, working diligently to get my lesson planned for our next meeting. The girls in my discipleship group would be gathering that week and we were going to be talking about intercession. Part of the lesson was on how Jesus intercedes for us, but I wanted to focus…
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