Mommy

Loving in Full Circles

I want to love them in full circles. To fill their buckets with drops that make ripples, not arrows that hit only their mark.

My mind is weighty with new old truth. Does the gospel ever just hit you fresh and fiery like the first time again? It’s like digging a well you’ve dug for years when suddenly, fresh, cool water streams in, turning dry cracked earth back into fertile life-bearing soil. Incarnation: a word that typically brings toContinue reading “The Power of Flesh”

Letters to my girls: on being a woman

Your body is a picture of the Gospel, do not diminish it by believing it to be anything less.

It’s ok to stop hiding

If anyone is going to understand the pain of bearing children, it will be the God who bore the pain of the whole world. You are not alone.

and if not…(part 2.5 Choose Joy)

“Faith is so great when life is easy. And knowing truth is so good. But experiencing truth is something different.”

Hope.

We are to serve God by using our pain, to give other people the hope that we have.

I should be a supermodel.

And I new exactly what she meant… you would think being a human pack mule for tiny children and their unbelievable amount of baggage would be the ultimate workout routine. But alas, the majority of us are still sporting our mom bods around in our Lulu Lemons.