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This was the day I became a parent. I had somewhat of a clue of what to expect, but almost a decade later, I can say it was very little.  And that’s my husband in the background, enjoying a burger.  Don’t think he knew, either. This past Sunday, I began to reminisce about that day

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is when Jesus heals the demon possessed man at the Gerasenes.  This man is legitimately crazy.  He lives in a graveyard (naked) and is so insanely strong that chains can’t hold him.  I picture him with crazy hair and covered in filth.  You could probably smell him

I figuratively hit a wall last week. Last weekend, after cooking my 6th meal in a row, I almost lost it.  It really wasn’t the cooking that did me in.  It was the prepping, cooking, eating, and clean up which only left me room to do a load of laundry before this cycle started all

This is me, walking down the aisle toward something that was uncertain. I mean, I had never been married before.  In fact, I had just really gotten to know the man at the end of the aisle for less than a year.  And I was about to make a life-long commitment.  It felt a little

There is a bird that lives in the trees behind my house.  It’s not my bird; it doesn’t even live in my yard.  But I know it’s there.  Every morning, from March until November, at the first glimmer of dawn, this bird starts to sing.  It starts off with a few notes and within an

A few nights ago, I had a dream. In my dream, I was alone, trying to find my way home in a very bad storm.  I knew that my journey home was going to be a long one- I was going from Galveston (a beach town on the coast of Texas) back home to Plano

In Mark 6, Jesus performs a miracle of feeding 5,000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish.  The disciples pass out the food and then collect 12 baskets of leftovers.  After this, they hop on a boat and float out to the middle of a lake.  In the middle of the night, the wind picks

Lately, it seems like the list of needs I am interceding for has grown … a lot.  People around me are in difficult circumstances and my heart has been feeling heavy for each of them. Slowly, discouragement and defeat began to move in and take residence in my mind. I began to wonder if my

Here’s another installment of books imitating life (or vice versa).  Tonight, we get a zoology lesson. My kids love animals; so we have a ton of books about animals.  One of their favorite books is a book called “Predator Splashdown”.  The book is a series of battle match ups between various water dwelling animals.  They

My husband and I ended 2019 with the flu. In 15 years of marriage, we have never both been sick simultaneously.  I do not recommend it. It started on a Friday.  We both felt ragged and run down but thought it was just the symptom of a long week with a holiday in the middle.