Parenthood is a funny thing. Those sweet little babies don’t come with an instruction manual and a lot of the time, you’re really just winging it. My oldest is turning 15 today. Fifteen years ago, I walked into the hospital in southern Florida, they...
Oh, NFP week. Wherein everyone wanted to tell you of the “beauty and marriage building” of NFP. I’m glad more people are coming out to speak about the tough aspects. It doesn’t always work seamlessly for all of us, but that’s ok. When...
Social Media. We all have a love-hate relationship with it. It can provide so much good: inspiration, pray, uplifting ideas, laughs, and friendship. But the bad. It can suck us into a black hole of endless, fruitless comparison. It tends to show us only the happy, the...
“….He created us – in His image. He could have created us and plunked us down on barren land. But He didn’t. He chose to give us the most beautiful land His perfect imagination could create. In its wonder, it is vast and varying…” I am over at...
A few weeks ago, we pack our van with camping supplies, a few changes of clothes, and our little family of eight and we hit the road. We said we weren’t stopping until we hit the ocean. We made some stops, but we finally dug our toes in the sand and looked out...
I don’t know if there is a plethora of books out there about the spiritual sides of miscarriage and infant loss. I haven’t checked. But when this one fell into my lap and I was given the opportunity to review it, I jumped. Losing a baby, at any stage, is...
