It’s the elf’s fault. The one I finally caved too, at Target. The one I had been seeing on Instagram, but wasn’t sure I wanted to commit to… Daily. During Christmas. I mean, who has creative ideas to place some Elf on a Shelf, late at night, or early morning, when your child won’t see you? […]
I was a lonely child. Some days, I even sat, peering past my lace curtains to the black, night sky, hoping to see that star shining back at me. And although I was too young to know some fixed luminous point in the sky was not the Savior of the World… That star somehow gave me […]
“I am the activities director and I don’t see you having an appointment to be here.” The smile-less faces and chilling looks of three women without make-up, greet me behind the counter. “Let me talk to the lady who made the appointment. She is on her way”, I assure her. The sound of a strummed guitar, […]
We just talked about it again, trudging through the Christmas tree farm the other day. Our older two, two decades and more, a boyfriend, my ten and a five-year-old, in toe. Each year, we bring someone different. Is that because they need to know the story too? It was year two of marriage. I remember it […]
She’s five today. And I do not know her middle name… I don’t know her story and have never read the many pages that make up her file. And yet I know, she scoots between two people talking, clings to me for days, and called me, “Mama” within fifteen minutes of meeting her. I know her […]
My greatest teacher is age ten. This grade-schoolers shows me continually what it means to love, live, and give, like Jesus. We shut our umbrella’s, drive home from soccer, and race into the house to get ready for our Hope Group. The clock keeps ticking, my mind was reeling, and I imagine people coming early, seeing […]