We had big plans for last weekend. Okay, big might be an overstatement. Maybe it’s best to say we had “plans”. A little get-a-way for the five of us. We’ve anticipated this get-away for a month and a half–a combined birthday gift to our three fall babies. It wasn’t anything spectacular, really. It was just,...
The first will always be something special. Something incomparable to anything else that ever happens in life. The first time absolute, unconditional love really makes sense. The first time an undistorted view of the heart is really captured. It happens in an instant. . . or at least it did for me, the moment I laid...
On this day, nine years ago, over the sound of Chris Rice’s voice singing, Welcome to our World, I heard the beautiful words that I had suspected I would hear for nine long months. Better than the sound of Rice’s angelic voice, the sweet words were uttered, it’s a girl. With those three tiny words, I learned what mothers...
There is this person that I know. Every morning before the sun rises, when her eyes open and are greeted with the early morning darkness, she lies in bed and listens to the sound of the breath flowing into her lungs. Slow and steady she breathes deep and feels the air enter her lungs ever so...
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