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The temptations are everywhere this Easter...to be sad; missing family, friends, church, and traditions. To be defiant and do those things anyway. To be lazy and not celebrate Easter this year. To feel lonely. To feel angry.   This morning I talked to Jesus about the temptations that keep coming up in me. I lamented that nothing is normal. That Easter should be...what?  My way?  My rights?  My idea of how we should get to celebrate our Savior’s victory over death?   As I stopped whining and was still, I heard the still small voice remind me of HIS way. His...

This story is 7 years old, but I swore I would share it every year as long as people need a laugh. I cannot think of a better day to turn it into a blog than April Fool's Day 2020:  the year that Mother Nature played the ultimate prank. {can it please just be a joke?}. Enjoy.  ********************************* This morning I got up and washed my hair. I realize this may not make sense to all of you....but for some of us, this is quite the commitment....I did it because I had been asked to talk to an elementary school...

Dr. Yeiser was the highly recommended pediatrician when I was pregnant. I think I met her for the first time when she came into my hospital room to check baby Asher. It’s a blur of him crying. {Ok...maybe it was me...}.   I remember those first few visits when you felt like they would call DFACS if the baby cried too much, or if you didn’t put poop diapers in the right bags or something 😂. She listened. She confidently and patiently guided us through all the things that easily overwhelmed a new mother.   Asher was 18 months old...

Every four years, God slips me a gift--an unbelievable gift that shows me that He really hears my cries, my whining, my complaining, my excuses.  He gives me a little more time.  We can talk about the science that explains why those of us on our calendar system have leap day.  I'm cool with that, as long as we both agree that God is the creator of science--circling back to something even bigger.  Before time began, as He spoke the science of our world into existence, He threw in a little extra time that would add up to a whole...

This week has been a lot. We spent Monday in a hospital while my father-in-law received donor lungs.  How incredible is that? {but also, why is sitting and waiting the most exhausting thing on the actual planet??}. We drove home late, so kiddos could head back to school.  My mother-in-law came to stay for a few days, car shopping, my house had to be speed cleaned for small group, because we had left for the hospital in the middle of a gusto of Marie Kondo-ing. 🙄 Brad had an out of town work trip and I started a pretty awesome,...