Before my husband Brent and I began dating in college, we would hang out as friends as a part of a larger group. Sometimes we would play...

For as long as I can remember, I knew I wanted to be a mom, partly because I always enjoyed being around younger kids. I transitioned...

Most everyone can point to an early friendship that forever shaped them. Besides my sisters, my earliest friends were Briony and Stacy....

When I was a little girl, my family would make the trip from our home in Nashville to our grandparents’ house in Danville, Illinois,...

There are a lot of positives to having a baby: the miracle of birth, the revelations about the preciousness of life, the somber bestowing...

Moses was tired. He was old. His belly was full of his breakfast—wafers of manna and the water that poured from a rock. As he climbed to...

We had a visitor in Sunday school last week. A mom I’d never seen before dropped off her 5-year old daughter and left us to get...

I am the queen of strange injuries, allergies, and illnesses. For instance, a few weeks ago, while drying the dishes after my...

Ever since I can remember, I have been blessed with great friends. I attended the same school from second grade through college, so I...

I’m always amazed to look up in the sky and see a large hawk attempting to escape from his scrawny songbird tormentors. (If you’re not...