the /grace/ between
The grace poured out between.
On Keeping Them Safe
(Trigger warning: Brief mention of suicide and self harm.) When I turned forty, I thought I said goodbye to a decade of being tired. Chuckbob wasn’t even a thought. COVID was months away. // I remember when my Second Son was just weeks old, and I was a fresh mom...
Guest posting: On Election Season
(I'm guest posting today, at Missionary Mama - I'd love for you to stop in.) “THE WELFARE OF GOD’S KINGDOM IS NOT DEPENDENT ON THE ELECTION OF THIS KINGDOM.” This election season has proven exhausting and mostly discouraging if I am honest with you - I’d like to...
Happy First Birthday Darling Girl
To my darling girl, my girl of grace. Before I begin ... A dear friend said recently, "Sometimes life just becomes unsayable, and being quiet is the only sound a person can make." And so I have been, in my virtual space, sitting in silence while I do the hard,...
On Healing
So this little postscript on healing is the accidental part two to my previous post. And happens to be the prompt for a lovely community of grace filled writers who get together on Fridays and write and read and encourage. HEAL(ING) See, after all that, after 11...
On being fine, or not – from an Army wife.
I am two okay, three birthday letters behind and I have lots of parenting things to write about but this, this is the most important thing I have to say right now. I don’t know who needs to hear this but listen up, in case it is you. I've been an Army wife for 11...
Love Baghdad. Love Anyway.
(Every time I went to write this, fresh tragedy was overtaking my social media streams. And so this may be old news in this heartbreaking season, but it still matters.) It feels like the world is on fire - and in the dog days of this summer, I am burning from the...
Wee Man: A Birthday Letter
(We've endured a series of curveballs, but I am determined to write this boy a birthday letter. We are going on four months now...) A Birthday Letter Dear Son, Happy Birthday (ish). This birthday letter is long overdue. Five whole years you've been taking in air....
On Veterans
We buried (another) friend last week.(I told you about him here, but because his desire was to be buried at Arlington with his fellow veterans, the interment ceremony wasn't until June. Bear with me-it has been a difficult, emotional season and that has been...
Memorial Day: On Waging Peace.
Truthfully there are a long list of names this Memorial Day that I can recite. We miss them always. And 10 years and some odd months later, we still say our Jaime's name every day. My friend Texas North said of her people, "It is a daily process not to mourn, but I...