Grown in Faith

I sat down and wrote a list of all my worries, fears, things that upset me. Then, I went through all the things I wrote and reread them. The second time I did something different though; I had a different perspective. This time through the lens of faith, instead of purely emotion. By doing this,…

There we sat in the living room, when the sound of a loud crash came stumbling in from the other room, you could hear the glass shattering against our wooden floors. I sprang to action and there was the source; my youngest son, looking very apologetic, offering an, ‘I am sorry’ many times. He had…

If I were a painter, I would paint all that I see All His beauty and majesty Though my colors could never compare, to colors only His own For only He can paint, such colors shone If I were an architect, I’d have so many ideas in my mind Though none would be grander, than…

When I was just a baby and my brother a toddler, we were traveling with our young mom and had something quite remarkable happen to us. It was during a time where cell phones did not exist and my mom was put in a scary situation; actually, we all were. While driving on a cold,…

It was me against my oldest. We sat in the middle of the living room floor to battle it out with an impromptu game of Checkers. I once taught him this game when he was about eight. Now here we are, and somehow, I am the one losing against him. I am both bummed that…

His bride, that is how he referred to her. Even after many years of marriage, he was still excited that she was his bride. Whenever she was not near to him, he felt like a part of himself was missing. Over the years what remained of her, were memories of love. For God called her…

As my oldest was out on his own adventure with his friends from church, we took our youngest to a local carnival. The weather was perfect for an evening of adventure. There was thunderous noise from all the different sorts of rides, people were shrieking with laughter and we could hear the sound of people…

365 days, 52 weeks, 8,760 hours; 1 year. What may feel longer in some moments, in truth is fleeting. Life is shorter than we realize in the grand scheme of it all. When we’re young, thirty seems old and then, suddenly we are thirty and ‘old’, looks much older. Time is a fleeting dance. We…

We were headed to pick my nephew up to hang out. As we looked around, we could tell that the way home from his house would be quite busy and chaotic. Traffic was bumper to bumper. I knew that if I took my usual way home, it would take much longer, create more stress and…