Dear Child of Ours, On May 17th, 2014, exactly 6 years after graduating from Spring Arbor University, your father received his Masters of Arts in Theological Studies from Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College. It’s been a long educational journey, rooted in our following of God’s will. I don’t believe it was a mistake that […]
Hope and Validation
Hope is a thing of extraordinary power. It feeds the soul. and yet it can torment it. It can be dashed. Yet it can show the way. This beautiful quote from one of my favorite British dramas, Call the Midwife (Season 3, Episode 3). Waiting for you, my Child, is a true test of my ability to hold […]
A Sacramental Celebration
Child of Ours, Today your father and I celebrate 6 years of marriage! What a wonderful day it is. The weather seems to be smiling with us, bringing with it blue skies, 70 degree warmth, and a soothing breeze. Our perfect kind of day, really. (Plus, your Dad knew exactly what would bring sentimental tears […]
Kid, your mom is awesome.
By now, you’ve figured out that your mom is way better with written words and posting consistently than I am. She’s written you dozens of notes, and I wrote two at the beginning. (Now I’ve written three…maybe I’ll get to a full dozen someday!) Hers get lots of amazing comments and people are inspired by […]
Where To?
Dear Child of Mine, We are really looking forward to you joining us in this next stage of our lives. The past 10 years of have been full of transitions. I graduated from high school and moved out of the only home I’d ever known to attend college in Spring Arbor, Michigan. During the summers, […]
A Small Goodbye
It’s begun: Spending as much time as possible with as many friends as we can before we move. Filling our one-room home with packing boxes. Feeling sad. Feeling excited. Feeling confused. Last Friday we had our last small group gathering. We call this bunch of people our Life Gwoup. (The W is on purpose. Inside joke.) […]
Not This Time
Oh, Child of Mine, How could we have known that six years after I wiped that tear off your daddy’s cheek as we were exchanging our vows, that we would be soaking each other’s shoulders in tears shed over our barrenness? I wish I knew if God was trying to tell me a flat-out-NO or just […]
The Same Saturday
Dear Child of Ours, Six years ago, May 17th fell on a Saturday just as it will this weekend. On that sunny afternoon at Spring Arbor University, your Daddy and I each received a diploma awarding us Bachelor of Arts degrees. We’d done it, achieved the American dream of graduating from college. I’d spent two […]
Last Day of School
Dear Child of Mine, I want you to know how exciting today is. It may seem like any other mundane Monday, but No! This is your Daddy’s Last Day of Seminary! Can you believe it? After being in school for all but a few years of his life, he will finally be finished. I am […]
Anticipating Mother’s Day
For the first time in all these years of waiting for you, Child, I am anxious about tomorrow. Mother’s Day. The past couple of holidays I wasn’t really thinking about me and my sadness. I was thinking about how GREAT moms are and how they deserve to be celebrated. Inevitably, however, there would be a moment when […]