“God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can you feel it?” ~ Walter Wangerin Jr. If you’ve ever seen a live birth, you know that there is nothing like it. Nothing to describe it except words like, “miraculous,” “awesome,” and “amazing.”… Continue reading Waiting for Christmas
Lessons from Cut Flowers
Grace enters the kitchen, breathless and covered with early morning mist. In her hand she holds a few small roses from our garden, presents for Mommy. “You don’t let me get flowers for you from the store,” she says, “so I have to get them from outside.” She asks me for a little vase or… Continue reading Lessons from Cut Flowers
A Letter to my Third Daughter on Her First Birthday
Dearest Abigail, I wrote to you the week you were born to recount the story of your birth, to etch the words in a forever memory, never to be forgotten. The day when you entered our lives. Today, I want to do the same thing. For the same reason. So that I never forget… Continue reading A Letter to my Third Daughter on Her First Birthday