Dear Lord, You did it. You really did. You gave us what we prayed for. We asked, and you answered with the adoption of three Chinese children. A glorious gift. Remember all those lifted prayers? Oh, how we prayed, and prayed, and prayed for our kids. We prayed, our friends prayed and our ...
Wild and Free Once Again: A Goodbye
She was my cousin, and my very first friend. My mind and heart return so easily to times long past, when you were Missy and I was Becky, playing under the summer sun in Tazewell, Tennessee. You lived right across the country road from Grandma and Papaw, and I lived a couple hours away. But, ...
Holiday Hosting: Lessons From the Master’s Table
Good grief is my kitchen small. It really drives me crazy. I just love to host people in my home, especially at the holidays. But as people tend to do, they huddle up in the kitchen, and it feels hard. Sometimes I’m embarrassed that my dishwasher is stainless steel and my oven and refrigerator are ...
Cancer’s Paradoxes
"Brace yourself for hard news.” When the radiologist looked into my eyes and altered my course, I recognized immediately the first paradox of cancer. In an instant, I knew myself to be both a weakling and a warrior. Membership in this club calls me to both accept and fight, surrender ...
Pathology and Prayer: A Diagnosis
With biopsies and appointments behind us, Friday found us knee to knee with a specialist hovered around a pathology report and a breast diagram. Before the sun even got a chance to shine that day, the cancer diagnosis was official, the word malignant highlighted and arrows drawn to the offending ...
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