Today I have the privilege of writing about our marriage over at Deeper Story. Take a gander. Tomorrow marks 22 years of marriage. It hasn’t always been rainbows and unicorns, but it’s always been an indication of the goodness of God to me. I am well loved by my husband. Protected. Prayed for. Blessed. Here [...]

You hollered into our world a week early (and you’ve been early ever since). They placed you in a red stocking and put a little red Santa hat on you. My sweet Christmas Eve baby, and my name is Mary! Such a fun, interesting coincidence, though Patrick’s name wasn’t Joseph. We’ve watched you grow up [...]

We shot this video after a hard, long day. We expected to venture to the other side of Haiti to visit another Help One Now project, but one of the van’s brakes failed (fun!). So we headed back to the orphanage we’d visited earlier. On the way, our blogging team decided this wasn’t an accident, [...]

I prayed this prayer for my ezine subscribers recently and decided to pass it on to you. It’s prayed from a place of stress in my life, so I figured if you’re under stress, you might relate too. Feel free to share this at will, particularly as we venture toward the holidays, fight crowds when [...]

I’m excited to have author and funny girl Cheri Williams here on my blog today. I think you’ll agree, she is a hoot. {Aside, please take this post with a large dose of humor.} She’s a fully neurotic, sometimes depressed, practically-a-pastor’s wife, who proves the castration of your man is practically a biblical mandate. She [...]

I am afraid my initial post about this got buried in my own worry for my daughter. But this is too important to gloss over. When I went to Haiti, I had no idea these amazing kids and adults would capture my heart. I didn’t know I’d be part of the solution. I didn’t know [...]

Thank you so much to all of you who were praying for us today during the doc appointment. As we suspected, they think she may have some sort of seizure activity, and she continues to suffer from headaches, so we’re headed to the hospital tomorrow for a few days to run tests (EEG) and knock [...]

Thank you to so many of you who sent Julia cards…and even a handmade blanket! Wow! She was/is really blessed by it all. When I brought her the stack, she thought I was joking. “Okay, mom, take your mail back,” she said. “No, honey, it’s all for you.” “It is?” “Yes,” I smiled. “I wanted [...]

I got another one of those texts moms don’t want to receive when they’re on the other side of the country. Hubby texted Julia was having another episode. Not as bad as the one that landed her in the hospital, but scary enough. Enough to send me into a tailspin a few minutes prior to [...]