I don’t see it until we write that second list. Placing it next to the first, we see what we did not glimpse in the midst of time passing.

I have tried not to write about this. It is so hard. So unspeakably hard. A mother and father staring into death. A precious girl found without breath.

Advent is here, and just like every year, I feel terribly unprepared. Not only because I have planned nothing, but because I’m terrified that if I do dare to plan, Advent will be lost.

Each time I would place pen to paper to write about my child, I would ask myself if this was a tale of fiction.

He caught my nervous upward glance. Dark clouds pressed in on two sides. And then he turned to our son.

I want him immersed in the breathtaking story of Scripture. That’s just what Zondervan’s new NIrV Illustrated Holy Bible for Kids has put into motion.