• Faith

    The Long Saturday

    For many years, the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday has summoned the most thought and reflection from me. An old Caedmonโ€™s Call song describes it as โ€œthe long Saturday between Your death and the rising day, when noโ€ฆ

  • Faith

    The Vault

    โ€œI have this thing I call โ€˜the vault,'โ€ the pastor said as an introduction to the personal story he was about to share. Iโ€™m not sure why, but I immediately pictured the kind of vault that is a gymnastics apparatus.โ€ฆ

  • Faith,  Family

    We Need Community

    We were a couple of months overdue for our daughterโ€™s one-year โ€œwell-babyโ€ checkup with the doctor. We had recently moved to a new state and had not yet met with a pediatrician. โ€œItโ€™s not a big deal,โ€ I thought. Whenโ€ฆ

  • Adoption

    Our Family Is Growing

    A few years ago, Kevin and I began to feel that we should expand our family. Itโ€™s not that we thought that having three kids wasnโ€™t enough. We werenโ€™t bored. We werenโ€™t missing the baby days. Rather, we felt compelledโ€ฆ

  • Family

    All-Skate

    My husband and I recently took our three children, plus some extra girls, to the roller skating rink. We had been skating once or twice before, but it had been a while since our last venture. Callie, my 12-year-old, tookโ€ฆ

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