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What it Means to Not Judge
I put my four boys to bed alone while my husband is away, and out of bad habit, I turn on my phone. I lay in bed in the dark, exhausted and a little defeated, and I go to Facebook for somewhere to zone...
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Made for the Party
The short drive from the elementary school isn’t enough to shake them free of the day, so when we walk into the kitchen where the heart of my mother work beats, I turn on some music and dance the baby...
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Wake Up: Kingdom Come
“Over and over, I told myself to Wake up! I begged my eyes be opened and it’s no small thing to see the metaphor in the spirit there.” Come join me over at Deeper Church today! I’ve got music for you,...
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Cursed Be the Woman
Today I have two posts for you, and both of them have me trembling a little. John Blase is our friend, and he’s a poet, the one we call the cowboy of the internet, gritty and tender. You must bookmark...
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You are as Valuable as the Orphan
This morning I woke at 4:45 to guzzle coffee before getting dressed. Then I woke 2 of my 4 boys and snuck out the door with them before 5:45. The older one admired the sun as it showed its gray edges...
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SIckness Like a Highway
image source I somehow thought taking Titus along to his appointments at Mayo would leave me primed for words. My intentions were grand, and I really did lean into scenes like poetry was about to...
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Coffee Shop Christianity
I’m writing to propose a revolution for authors, blog writers, and ministers of the gospel who share office spaces in coffee shops. I live in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a strange town with a twist of...
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Embrace the Awkward
The Office is one of the funniest shows ever created, but it does’t matter to me. I can’t watch it for even a minute. The awkward factor makes me cringe so hard that I curl into a ball and cover my...
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You Inherit Me
The following post may not be strange to you, but when I wrote it, I felt risky and in love with people who bug the stew out of me. My greatest desire as of late is that we would love and be loved...
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Yes to the Little Green House
I said yes to a little green house with a big garden and two rows of fruit trees. It’s like a mansion if your standard were teeny tiny houses. There’s a clothesline here, and the breeze beneath my...
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Dog Days
It has been a blowdryer kind of hot here in Arkansas. I look out these windows and see such beauty, but I promise it’s a trick. The air is as thick as mud, like when you’re in one of those dreams...
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How to Talk to Your Own Soul
It has just started pouring hard like fingers tapping on the windows. This morning hour of navy grey is when the cars have solidified their hum, and over the top is the tapping. We’re up with the...
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True Story
My little writing office is downtown, and I’m so glad because writing a book tends to land me for days in the recesses of memory. When words are coming, my thoughts teeter more on the inside of the...
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Thought Loops and How Security Changes You
Often the works of the day, the habits of routine, move our bodies forward. We don’t have to think hard before rolling out of bed. For me, even with my best intentions to go straight to coffee and my...
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The Lamb and the White Belt
The oldest three of my four sons have been taking karate for over half a year now. They’ve earned their orange belts, and I am a proud mother who signed them up because I think martial arts is...
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On Making a Plan
To tell you of my life right now would be to write in broad generalizations about abstract things: love, anger, forgiveness, fear, redemption, release. But this is not my favorite way. I rather enjoy...
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A Fifteen Year Anniversary: a story of my body
For Seth on our 15th Anniversary: My body was in a heavy gown, so simple and white, A-line. It cost $250. I wore a small veil, one for little girls at their christening, but no one knew it. The trees...
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Anger Exchange: a Giveaway of an Original Painting from Haiti
It made me angry to do this at first because I would rather saw off my own arm than ask you for help. I had an epiphany yesterday, and I want to write about it. It was beautiful. I want to start this...
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Thanksgiving and My Not-So-Pinterest Life
Though it’s a very rare day that I have a cookie in the cookie jar, this post from Emily Wierenga gets a hearty Amen from me. This week is Thanksgiving Break for the Haines boys, and we are setting...
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Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room
This is not about Black Friday, but I’m about to link to a bunch of stuff, and just so you know, I’m not being paid in any way for it. This is about my house full of little boys who are asking hard...
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