My feet had no choice but to step on the campus the morning after a provoked teacher threatened to kill all the children, forcing the staff to watch. Old red, white, and blue, dangled in the bright, cloudless sky. I was told the testing for one of my kids would take around two hours. I checked […]
So excited to introduce you to someone who has made a huge impact on my life and my writing. Her name is Laura Krokos. She is the founder of Missional Women, a site I have been blessed to be a contributor at for the past few years. The thing you might not know about Laura (from […]
It’s a hooded heroin, I try to discern appropriate, as my ten-year-old plays a new video game; sword glowing, balls of light burning, releasing power. In a day where people call evil good and good evil, (Isaiah 5:20)… It is vital we recognize parenting as our primary mission. The choices we make in training won’t […]
Her head is tucked tight inside of one of the books we picked up from the library. As a home-school mom, I thrive on knowledge, but also the age-old education of good old-fashioned conversation. The kind people originally shared; face-to-face, one-on-one, the older teaching the younger. Because kids, if we let them, can become more than […]
I sat next to her because she was smart. Everyone knew her dad had ample wealth. At sixteen, she had cash handed to her whenever she wanted, a nice car, and seemingly everything a girl could dream of. But soon, I didn’t care as much about her math skills, as I sympathized with her cry for […]
It was our first SUV ever. Shiny black, two bucket seats in the back, fitting seven. I loved that rugged four-wheeler. It carried a car full of girls to birthdays, me and my kids hiking up mountains, and to the dessert, camping at The Gorge each year for Creationfest. There was that time close to winter […]