As our kids learn to notice details as small as a shift in temperature or a leaf bidding its branch farewell, perhaps they’ll become more aware of God’s workings in their lives.

I place a pause before my answer, wonder if I should burden him with these heavy thoughts. He can take it, he has before.

We’ve discovered a sweet offset — that the balances are bent in our favor. The more we hike, the greater the hiking becomes. Here are 4 ways we’ve taught our kids to love family hikes.

It wasn’t like me to fail a class. As the second youngest student at college, I took the opportunity to attend Bible school seriously. Yet here I was smitten with a boy and, alongside him, failing Greek.

“We should buy your parent’s house.”
I thought my husband was crazy. Sipping on my iced latte, every reason to not do this filled my mind.

I know now the hard-pressed nature of being a mama balancing countless responsibilities in and outside the home. An intense fear of dropping the iron of their upbringing or education while tending too greedily to the iron of my career… and yet, I’m grateful for this bookend vantage…