Blog Posts
When Conflict Finds You
Conflict is everywhere. Turn on the tv, open social media or basically go anywhere there are people and it won’t take long for you to find conflict. Religion, politics, healthcare reform, fashion, entertainment – pick any topic and you can instantly find a slew of individuals poised and ready to verbally spar with you. Some…
Wrestling with Resting
Learning to rest and wait on God can arguably be one of the hardest aspects of the Christian life. But where we wait, God speaks.
He Can Take It
My husband and I have been parents for 12 years now. We were not experts when we started our parenting journey and we’re certainly not experts now. That being said, we have learned a few things along the way. So much of the current parenting culture centers around being your child’s friend and, whether knowingly…
All Tangled Up…
Remember that mountain I last wrote about? (Yeah, sorry it’s been while…) You know, the one where I was sitting at the base of it and waiting to climb? I was convinced within myself that the climb would soon begin and we would finally reach the pinnacle and breathe that huge sigh and feeling of…
He’s in the waiting….
Oh adoption, how you stretch us in so many ways. We are 11 months into our process since taking that first step and saying “yes” to the child God has for us and like all adoption stories, it’s been messy. We’ve had set backs, months of waiting with no answers in sight, agency changes, do-overs…
What is Ahavah?
Written by Somer Colbert Throughout our journey of adoption our family has experienced a redefinition of what love means. Recently, God gave my husband the word Ahavah. It immediately struck both of us as we dug deeper into its meaning and we began to lean on it as we parented our three children and began…