When God moves into the neighborhood

Thumbnail image for When God moves into the neighborhood December 12, 2011

It hasn’t snowed here yet. It’s been unseasonably warm. When Zoe and I walk to pick Jackson up from Kindergarten the sun warms us in ways unexpected for December. I’ve been able to say more yes to the playground than no. But the radio sings of winter. It plays song after song of worship that [...]

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A transcontinental wedding wish for my brother & new sister-in-law

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{My oldest little brother got married this weekend. In South Africa. I wasn’t there. But I was. Because words have wings and love can span oceans.} Joshua, I don’t know if you’ve ever been my little brother. You’ve always been the rock, the hug, the guy that knows how to comfort his sister when her [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving: What Are We Grateful For?

November 24, 2011

How about you, friend? What are you thankful for today? {And have you discovered my friend Ann’s *free* App for counting each of the gifts we’re grateful for? Download the free app at iTunes and for android devices.}

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The hard work of liking our kids, not just loving them

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There are frayed edges of motherhood that aren’t often talked about. Those places where we’re holding onto our temper with one hand and the belief that things have got to get better eventually with the other. One night that place rocks me hard as I rock my baby girl in one arm and cell phone [...]

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The Raggedy Ann love

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She keeps me up. Again and again and my eyes stop focusing properly. All I want is sleep. And I whisper to her in frustration, “It’s a good thing I love you so much.” I love you at 4am when everyone’s asleep but us. I love you when you projectile vomit all over me in [...]

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How to tell your wife you love her without using words

Thumbnail image for How to tell your wife you love her without using words November 10, 2011

I only hear him leaving because his youngest son hears him first. Hears his dad tip toeing quietly out at 5am so as not to wake the baby that finally fell back asleep at 4:30. The son I didn’t even realize was in the room. The son tucked into a blanket on the floor by [...]

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When you’re not sure what comes next

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The back yard looks like a place where toy cars come to die. Fall in all its beauty is dying too. I sit outside with the baby girl in her socks and me in the sneakers that aren’t quite on properly because we rushed outside to try and catch some of the late afternoon light [...]

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How to feel productive on your most unproductive days

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When he tells me his head hurts and my stroking it doesn’t help, I know he’s sick for real and not just for sympathy. His younger brother and sister are just emerging from the fever and croup he’s headed into. It’s Saturday and the US Marine museum outing has been traded for Netflix, mama’s bed, [...]

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Because children are in the eye of the beholder

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He’s wearing nothing but the blue camo underroos when he comes running at me. I barely have time to brace before all that stocky, nearly-four-year-old life slams into my knees. Amazing, to be missed like this. Today he asks me to wave from the door while he chops down that oak tree in the front [...]

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Things our parents could have told us about parenting

Thumbnail image for Things our parents could have told us about parenting October 26, 2011

How heavy a baby is. How that tiny, new human being can cripple a back with endless nights of swaying and leaning and crouching over a crib to listen to her breathe. They could have mentioned the ache you’d feel at the pit of your heart when she smiles or burps or rolls over. Perhaps [...]

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