Infertility, miscarriage, still birth and abortion are hard topics with deep, unique wounds associated with each. We have experienced infertility and miscarriage and those were difficult days. I had a miscarraige very early in a pregnancy that resulted from IVF. My Doctor explained early on that my HCG levels were not normal and that the pregnancy would end naturally. Instead ... Read More »
Difficult topics
Seductive Senior Pictures
I've started this post a million times not wanting to tread on sensitive ground yet want to talk about something that has been concerning to me. I'll just get it out there. I'm concerned about all the seductive senior pictures I'm seeing in facebook land. Girlzzzzzz.......some of you are pulling off sexy really well but what you're doing is dangerous. You're setting yourself ... Read More »
Powerful words to frame our circumstances
This spoken from a friend Mama whose little girl has CF and is fighting for her life right now. This spoken from Jesus to his Father as he faced death by crucifixion. These are hard words to utter sometimes. Because God's will isn't always what we desire or want. We can't see the whole picture and understand his ways and so life just won't always make sense to us. But the ... Read More »
The hard stuff I’m dealing with right now – the stuff I don’t care to talk about.
So here's the deal and the low down about the stuff I don't care to talk about but it's a big part of my life right now. I want to remain transparent on this blog and not just in the good times. I'm having surgery on August 22nd to have 20" of my colon removed and resectioned. I have ischemic colitis as a result of a recurring volvulus. That means my colon has been twisting ... Read More »
4 things to the Woman still waiting to be a Mom:
To the desiring woman still waiting to be Mom, It's hard, isn't it? Still waiting. Hoping that this would be the Mother's Day you celebrate as a Mother with a child in her arms. While you're still hanging on to hope and know God has a plan there's still a deep ache inside your heart. And you wonder if you can make it to Sunday morning service where all the Mother's are ... Read More »
When the healing doesn’t come
I'm in a small group Bible Study and we're working through Jennifer Rothschild's study called "Missing Pieces" and it's so very good. Jennifer is blind and she shares openly of her years of praying for God to heal her. I love the ladies in my study and last night after hearing Jennifer's session on being thankful FOR and not just IN her blindness we were all in awe. And we ... Read More »
When our kids grapple with faith
I'm not ashamed to say that I see my son grappling with his faith right now. Asking a lot of questions. Wondering why God did things a certain way when He had all the power and control to do things differently - things that make more sense to him. Like - not putting the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden to begin with. Not letting satan tempt Adam and Eve. Not ... Read More »
Your stories: walking through separation and divorce. Part 2
This is Part 2 in a series on separation and divorce among Christians. All these stories include editing and parts of a bigger picture. We'd be wise to know that what works for some families may or may not work for others but my hope is that God will use these posts in some small way. Maybe we gain a deeper understanding of just how hard this journey is for some of our brothers ... Read More »