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How Resentment Clues Us In
We’re well into summer and the Facebook posts and Instagram pictures are bursting forth with other people’s glorious lives. Their vacations. Their beach bodies. Their perfect families. And it can be...
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I Pray for You on Sundays
I wouldn’t call myself a woman of prayer. If I say I’ll pray for you, I do. Often right then and there so I don’t forget. And sometimes again later. But praying without ceasing is so far beyond my...
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Keeping them Safe
The other day my daughter was flipping through a World Vision catalog in the car, trying to see if she had enough money to buy a rabbit or a soccer ball for another family. When suddenly she stopped...
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The Next Four Years
I’m writing this post about 50 hours before the polls open on Tuesday. I write everything below without knowing who has won because it applies regardless of the outcome. Theoretically this morning we...
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Good News!
My husband is a diehard Cubs fan. His mom’s cousin, Doug Dascenzo, played for the Cubs. As a kid he would go to games, sit behind home plate, and hang out in the dug out. He even has a couple of bats...
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Reflecting on Rio. And other things.
Me with my parents on senior night of high school swimming Coming from a swimming family, we watched Olympic swimming before it was cool. I remember watching Janet Evans and her unorthodox freestyle...
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Why We’re Not Trying to Raise Color Blind Kids
My rather observant, extremely verbal 3-year old is currently quite curious about skin color. He keeps pointing it out wherever we go. The other day he methodically studied our friend with darker...
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A Prayer of Confession
This morning, We confess that we’ve been silent. Not standing up for the weak and powerless. We confess that we’ve allowed our stubborness to get in the way of really listening to those whose lives...
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On Assumptions
As we finish up our week, what if we set aside our assumptions? About our spouse’s motives. About what’s going on inside our kid’s head. About our coworkers’ intentions. What if instead we ask...
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For Everyone Who Ever Grew Up
Maybe you were labeled the class clown. The shy one. The reckless one. The know-it-all. Maybe you were the smart one. The one going places. Maybe your current reality doesn’t match their fantasy....
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Sibling Stories
Because who doesn’t have a random picture with their siblings in the middle of the road? Every time we get together we tell the same stories. We laugh about one brother pushing the other through the...
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The Unedited Version
I used to look back through my journals and panic because my writing was so negative. I began to wonder if my past was just a big jumble of hurt. Then I realized I don’t really journal. Journaling...
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On What We Deserve
Recently I was watching Hulu when a commercial for a hotel came on. It pictured parents in one room and their kids in an adjoining room loudly jumping on the beds. The dad was opening and closing the...
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When You’re Vacillating Between Jealousy and Judgment
My life often feels a bit countercultural. We haven’t done preschool. We homeschool. We only have one car. (And a moped). The four of us live in a two bedroom apartment. We try to embrace our limits....
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Buggies, Shopping Carts, and Carriages
© 2013 breki74, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio One of the first things you notice upon arriving in a new region of our incredibly diverse country, is the local accent. This is quickly followed by...
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What We’re Really Saying When We Pretend to Have it All Together
I’m a notoriously bad faker. Nothing exhausts me more than plastering on a smile when I’d rather be curled up in bed reading a book or crying under my covers. But I’m a mom and a pastor’s wife and a...
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When You Feel Paralyzed by the World Around You
Some days it hits you all at once. Your husband is out of town, the kids are screaming for daddy, and as you try to mind-numb with Facebook you see this little boy sleeping in the same position as...
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A New Just Wait
© 2013 Dave Taylor, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio “You think being a kid is tough? Just wait until you have to pay your own bills.” “You think long hours at work are tough? Just wait until you have long...
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Service Doesn’t Start in the Soup Kitchen
© 2005 Elvert Barnes, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio It’s that time of year again. The bells are ringing outside the grocery store. The churches are pushing for mission’s funding. The commercials are...
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Even So Come Quickly
© 2010 Barbara Müller-Walter, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio This world aches and groans. Disease. Brokenness. Inequality. Racism. Injustice. Poverty. Flat-out meanness. I could just cry over the...
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