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Pudgy Tummies and Tired Eyes? Not Through Childlike Eyes.
“Allow the children to come to me… for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” Luke 18:16 (NAB) I think small children see things through a God-like lens, as he would see the world. The childlike see with love and simplicity and purity. I think there’s a real reason why God says that the childlike are the ones who will inherit the kingdom. Yesterday morning I was getting ready to run. In a sleep-deprived daze, I put on my black joggers, long sleeve tee, running shoes, and threw my morning hair back in a big headband. I didn’t feel cute, I didn’t feel beautiful. I’m running mainly because…
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Are You Wasting Your Time on Your Children?
Our society is hyper-focused on productivity. I could see it in high school students who were in twenty different time-consuming activities while taking ten different high level courses all while trying to hold down a full time job. Alright, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but whether you’re a high school student trying to build the resume for college applications or parents trying to provide all the best opportunities for their children, there’s a high societal (and also internal) pressure to perform, to win, to be the best, to have the best, to do the best. I’m a stay at home mom with two little children. I often times feel…
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Receiving the Gift of Newborns
Pure gift… words I dared to utter about our new babe. We named him Nathanael, which means “gift of God” because, after all, after loss and waiting, it’s harder to take the gift for granted. The first time around, I was so overwhelmed by all the newness that it took awhile for the magnitude of the gift to really settle in. So, this time we are acutely aware of what has been given to us. Gifts can be funny though. Sometimes we receive gifts we don’t want or didn’t ask for. One year when I was teaching middle school religion, a family gifted every teacher with a bottle of wine…
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Nathanael’s Birth Story
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so, hey! Hello! How have you been lately? Two months feels like an eternity and a few moments all at the same time. The reason for my hiatus, our bright spot of hope, arrived six weeks ago. And because I feel that more of these hopeful moments are needed in our world today, without further ado, here is his birth story. The Due Date Our first, Lucy, was born two full weeks before her due date. So when 38 weeks came and went with this pregnancy, I was entering uncharted territory. At 36 weeks I was ready to be done, at 38…