In all the trials I’ve had to face, In all the tasks I see at hand, There’s much about amazing grace I find I still don’t understand. The past is not quite in the past; I’m trapped, at times, by what has been. But ev’ry time the shadow’s cast,...
I began crying a full nine months before the event. No, it was not an unexpected pregnancy—quite the opposite. My eldest daughter was graduating from high school, and I was not sure I would survive. From August to June, Hannah’s days were filled with drama practice, yearbook meetings, and...
We have been overseas workers for sixteen years (thirteen in Senegal, West Africa, and three in Chiang Mai, Thailand). I have been a mom for thirty-three years. I am not the best mom in the world, but I am passionate about being a mom. My children are forever on...
I hate it here. That is all there is to it. The heat. The bugs. The constant shoving of powerful drugs into my kids’ bodies just to keep them semi-healthy. The oppression and injustice and poverty I see every single time I step outside my house. Problems I am...
