What a World Shattered, Needs From Us

My heart sunk as I pulled up my Facebook page. Again. It was all I could think. I felt sorrow, I felt anxiety, and I felt something that is, I am sure, in close relation to hopelessness. So many emotions and so many feelings...and then I was struck with the most disconcerting feeling of all: selfishness. In…

The Parenthood Files: Fourth of July

Today, we celebrate the birth of a nation and freedom. My children and I will read some poems, sing some songs and listen to stories about the reason as to why we celebrate. There is a rich and powerful history born out of this old land, one whose stories and past beg us to continue to…

VBS Reflections: Let the Children Come

But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." Mark 10:14 We lived through those final moments of VBS, as Day 5 has now come and gone. It was the ending to a week where I saw people giving…