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New Year….New Hope?
Happy New Year! In the past few weeks, I’ve celebrated, I have feasted, I have thoroughly enjoyed this Christmas season. But now the New Year is upon us. There was a time in my life the New Year meant...
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Fostering their Faith: As I Fear, Suspect, and Hope
In five years, I will have a teenager. That’s a dramatic way of saying I have an eight-year-old, but it’s the perspective on my mind these days, as I pack away too-small clothes and watch grown-up...
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Longing for Heaven After Loss, Heartache, and Grief
Last month I joined that horrible, beautiful, painful, holy club – the one with membership not decided by the members themselves. The one spoken of in hushed tones and with downward glances. The one...
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Found. . .
Last night I laid in bed wide awake just listening to helicopters circle over my house and all throughout my community. They were looking, searching, seeking out someone’s baby boy. All I could think...
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#31days, Day 1: Our Hope Is An Anchor
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the imagery of faith often points back to the boat. Jesus’ call to Peter on the water is a foundational story in the earliest accounts of bold faith. But think...
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#31days, Day 2: The Reality of God + Influence Conference Recap
“I am aware of the reality of our situation, but I have to focus instead on the reality of God.” My dad uttered these wise words as we drove in the car last week. He was dropping me off to meet up...
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#31days Day 3: In HIM All Things Hold Together
In writing The Pregnancy and Baby Companion books, we focused on Colossians 1:16-17. Having walked through a season of infertility and miscarriage, I held tight to this verse as I stepped out in faith...
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#31 Days, Day 18: Waiting in Faith
When I was little, I couldn’t wait to be grown up. “If I could just be ______, then I would be _____”. Youth ached for maturity. Singleness ached for marriage. Childless ached for a child. Season...
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A River Runs Through It: #Allume Conference Recap
I said goodbye to her 18 days ago. 18 days ago and thousands of days too soon. My mother was only 64 when she lost her battle with cancer this month. Full of life one day {although suffering} and gone...
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Mending a Broken Christmas with Prayer {Elisabeth}
Traditions and rituals are beautiful things. They help mark the passing of time, they help us remember where we come from, where we’ve been, and where we are now. They help us hold out a steady post...
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What Are You Expecting In 2014?
This past Friday, Adriel wrote a very encouraging post about beating the end of January blues if the year hasn’t started out like you had hoped. I thought this guest post from our new friend Sarah...
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Hope for the Hurting Separated or Divorced Woman this Valentine’s Day
Holidays can sting. They can stir up something in us when we least expect it. We can be moving along, healing a bit more every day from the pains of this life, and then a holiday comes and we can be...
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With The Cross In View
Calm run this morning. The motion of my feet hitting the pavement, tears falling from my eyes, raising my hands to the dark clouds that are about to unleash his promises in forms of pure water. ....
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Family Faith-Building: Teaching Kids about Hope
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1 To say that my family has an obsession with Disney World is an understatement. My children measure...
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5 Scriptures of Hope for the Weary Mom {+ a giveaway}
Weary doesn’t even begin to describe it most days, am I right?! Motherhood is by far the hardest job I have ever done partly because it’s the most important one {and my weary soul knows it} and partly...
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Family Story: Develop the Plan {Why We Need Vision}
Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 We are 14 days from the onset of Spring and it cannot come too soon, in my opinion. Winter has taken its toll on me, both physically and...
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Family Story: Develop the Plan {Short and Long Term Vision}
Now that we have taken a magnifying glass to assess our family more closely, it’s time to pull out some bifocals. You have identified your family’s values {the what}, your family’s mission {the why}...
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What Are You Looking For?
My children’s Easter best lay in the laundry room, her twirly dress and his white shirt grass stained from their search for treat-filled eggs. There are buckets of candy taking over the kitchen as I...
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Hope for the “Modern” Family
My daughter told me that she loves having dinner at her friends’ houses because she craves being around normal families. Ouch. She didn’t say this to be mean, and in fact, the moment she saw me wince,...
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The One Who Rescues Us When We’re Sinking
…fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2...
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