No one goes into parenting to raise a killer. We hold those tiny feet, let little finger wrap around our index, quietly dreaming in the recesses of our minds of Homecoming princesses, athlete’s, super genius’… But never killers. And are killers really all that different. Born of that same heart of sin before regeneration, same tender […]
When it’s Time to “Take Your Freedom”.
It’s like a wave of grief swells involuntarily in me as my nine-year-old clings to the book we are reading… Addy, an American Girl, was something I wouldn’t let my brown skinned daughter read on her own. It’s about a young child entrenched in a war for her freedom; beaten, made to eat worms. Her father and […]
Fragile Families, and Why You Should Fight for Those You Love
My suitcase held a strange comfort as it lay open on my bedroom floor. Â I wasn’t going anywhere…But something about a filled case brought peace and comfort… Luggage waiting made me feel like I had an option of not staying…Even though I was morally obligated, and staying. A little girl lay curled up in an outlined […]
Cutting the Apron Strings and Letting Our Children Go
She swooped the roller across her lime green walls. Â And once where there was bright colors. Â Black was all I saw. Covering like the sorrow wallowing from my heart. What happened to my little girl? Why did she want black walls? What had I done wrong in this life to make my sparkles loving, pink, tiara […]