Bedtime is an all-hands-on-deck situation in our house. When eight o’clock hits, there are several minutes of full-on chaos with children running around half-dressed, diffusers to fill, sound machines to turn on, and teeth to brush. I’m sure it looks the same at your house. There is so much commotion. Once we get everyone ready we pile on our oldest…
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We live in a culture that is very protective of their yeses. There is an encouragement to say no to obligations and commitments so that we can better serve those that we already have. We are taught that our “yes” is much more powerful when preceded by a handful of “nos.” It is embedded throughout our whole culture, but especially…
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Our family has had an interesting journey of trying to define what ministry is over the past year and a half. Brad and I both spent years of our lives in Bible and ministry classes with the dream and intent of living on mission in Guatemala. When our little Gideon got sick, it forced us to redefine what ministry would…
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Last week was our Guateversary. We moved to Guatemala two years ago, and it has left me reflecting on our time there this week. I haven’t spoken much to our experience there because it has been clouded by the abrupt following of God back home, but our time in Guatemala truly changed the way that I view missionaries, and I…
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I was given a lot of advice while I was pregnant with my firstborn, but no one warned me about the initial time commitment and intensity of nursing a newborn. I was so totally unprepared when my oldest was born. I knew nothing of cluster feeds and the fourth trimester where the baby still constantly needs Mommy’s presence through nursing….
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