Sometimes in the middle of the day, I carve out some time. Just a ten or twenty minute break. To breathe life in. To enjoy this moment. To experience God’s creation in a way that takes my mundane and makes it new. Things used to be different. I’d say to myself, I don’t have […]
The Gift of Life from the Ashes
The Gift of Life from the Ashes She holds a necklace in her hand and talks of her son’s death. Slowly rolling the jewelry in her fingers, she reveals the truth: Her son’s ashes are in the necklace. It hangs close to her heart, close to her broken soul, but not close enough to heal the gaping wound […]
Gifts of Brokenness: What I Learned from the Death of my Son
This is the first part of a series on the Gifts of Brokenness—What I learned from the death of my son The leaves on the tree are yellow and orange, falling from the sky, soft as snow, leaving a carpet of autumn brilliance on the ground. My dog and I walk through them at the […]
Fruitful: How to make Something Meaningful out of our Pain
How to Bear Fruit From Our Pain On a windblown day, in the middle of bean fields and October skies, we pick apples at a farm along a gravel path. The sun is warm and the trees loaded, their boughs weighed down by the countless orbs of red and green. My daughter eats three apples […]
Our Journey Part 1
My husband, Sam, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2005. He went through chemo. He lost all his hair. He got white and puffy and tired. And when it was over, we were given the good news that he was cancer free. We were already in the process of adoptiong from Korea when he was […]