I could not bake. This was a realization I had to accept growing up. Even the frozen pizza, boasting of its simplicity from its little cardboard box, was just too much to take on. Realizing all too late that you are, in fact, supposed to remove it from its little round cardboard piece before placing […]

“Bless this food to our bodies, and our bodies to Your service.” It’s a prayer I heard a teammate pray while I was on a mission trip in high school. Since then, it has been an often spoken prayer before my meals. It intrigues me—the idea of food for our benefit. Food is productive, it […]

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Allow me to bear my heart a little bit here… Thursday night I watched a couple of documentaries on the lost girls of China. I cried through them, holding tightly to my own baby, fast asleep in my arm. After Gray got home from church, and we lie in bed talking, he told me that […]

In twenty years I’m not going to want to remember only the smiles but also moments like these…    I want to remember more than the moments he first sits up, crawls, and walks.   I want to harbor also the falls it took for him to get there.   That moment when I first […]

Baby’s First Christmas. It spurred in my mind special moments and memories to be made. A perfect picture of our son in his Christmas sweater smiling big next to our perfect Christmas tree. Making tins of beautiful Christmas treats for neighbors, family, and friends. Ezekiel unwrapping his very first Bible. And so, as our first […]