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A Fireman’s Valentine


Celebrations

Apparently, people with burning houses don’t consider the Valentines plans of their first responders. (How dare they?)

February 21, 2022

Church Grief: A letter opened


Walking with Jesus

Ryan offered this letter to our church at the end of 2021. I am sharing it with you because he is better at words these days than I am.

January 19, 2022

Marriage in recovery


Marriage

What I lack in a history of sexual sin I make up for in a thousand other ways, as named here. I am greatly in need of grace.

April 7, 2021

February Goals – more reports and confessions


Celebrations, Goals

I had a lovely little idea that February would be the perfect month to focus on intimacy, and then I inherited a newborn baby.

March 4, 2021

How I Go To Bed


Life around home

I check on the children, sleeping in their beds. I pull back my covers and remember something I forgot downstairs, so I go do that, too.

February 17, 2021

When He’s Wrong


Marriage, Promoted

You know deep in your bones that what he is thinking or doing or feeling or chasing is going to land him in deep guano sooner or later.

October 31, 2020

What Lasts Seventeen Years


Celebrations

This griddle. Hm. It has seen better days, and no wonder. It’s one of our wedding gifts, from seventeen years ago today.

October 25, 2020

My response: Running


Marriage

Both of my last two blog posts are true pictures of my family. There is great pain and great beauty side by side in my home.

August 31, 2020

Guest post from my husband: Running


Dark days

We have been walking through difficult things this summer. His words feel redemptive, protective, perfect to me.

August 20, 2020

Pumpkin Pity Party Pie


Food

Prepared with love for him at dinner’s end, an unannounced surprise made carefully into a luscious circle of fresh crimped crust…

March 31, 2020

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Shari Zook


Shari Zook is a wife, mother of four, and foster parent for the past eight years. She bakes cakes, grows herbs, and reads amazing books, but her heart is in nurturing children, crafting words, and connecting with women.

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