Growing up a Christian, I learned to believe one thing about marriage: A good wife submits to keep her husband happy, and if the marriage falls apart it is due to a failure on the woman’s part. It’s not that anyone ever blatantly said it in those words, but it was easy to pick up […]
I always worship before I write. It’s just a thing that I do to align my heart with God’s heart and to really sit down and listen to what He has to say. As I was praying this morning I asked God to show me what to write and how to articulate my words. I […]
To a certain degree my faith story is a fairly common one: I was raised going to church multiple times a week, walked away from my faith during high school and college, and eventually returned as an adult. I stopped identifying as a Christian in my youth largely because of negative life events that I […]
“Can you believe she had a baby three months ago?” The first time I heard this “compliment,” I didn’t know how to take it. I wasn’t back at my pre-pregnancy weight. I hadn’t really figured out when to squeeze in workouts with a full-time job and an infant. Besides, when I got off work at […]
I spent the last moments of my 34th birthday lying on the floor of my youngest daughter’s nursery. Over the last hour, I’d pat my 15-month-old’s back as she dozed off to sleep, attempted to sneak off only to hear her cry, no scream, for me to come back and repeat the process. So at […]