A Fireman’s Valentine
Apparently, people with burning houses don’t consider the Valentines plans of their first responders. (How dare they?)
Tag: Ryan
Church Grief: A letter opened
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.
Marriage in recovery
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.
February Goals – more reports and confessions
I had a lovely little idea that February would be the perfect month to focus on intimacy, and then I inherited a newborn baby.
How I Go To Bed
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.
When He’s Wrong
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.
What Lasts Seventeen Years
This griddle. Hm. It has seen better days, and no wonder. It’s one of our wedding gifts, from seventeen years ago today.
My response: Running
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.
Guest post from my husband: Running
We have been walking through difficult things this summer. His words feel redemptive, protective, perfect to me.
Pumpkin Pity Party Pie
Prepared with love for him at dinner’s end, an unannounced surprise made carefully into a luscious circle of fresh crimped crust…