People thought I was crazy. I had a little girl and a little boy. Two blue-eyed, blond, curly-haired cherubs made my family complete. Why on earth would we be pregnant again? It’s hard to explain the commitment Alex and I made at our wedding, which included being open to children, in a doctor’s office full …READ MORE
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Learning to Ride the Waves – Caring for a Child Who Needs Extra Care
~ When you feel like you are drowning in a sea of medical worry, you must let go of what you thought was your sturdy anchor, and learn to ride the waves. ~ Part One It was a dark evening. No one else was up, and I could hear the trees rustling with the stormy …READ MORE
The Hidden Loss: Letting Go of My Will and Trusting God – Part Two
—Monday, Dave went back to work. Thank God Mom was still there. I was getting sick of waiting for the painkillers to work, so we walked my two-year old and one-year-old to the park. On the way back, right in front of my house, everything suddenly went black. It was like I had gone blind. …READ MORE
The Broken Whole of Me
Years ago, after the birth of my second child, I fell into a postpartum depression. In my early twenties, having managed to leave an abusive husband, I lived with two of my sisters in a home my mom bought. Though we had a close and happy arrangement, after my baby was born, I seemed to …READ MORE
The Hidden Loss: Letting Go of My Will and Trusting God – Part One
I met Dave a few months after returning from working as a missionary. After this work for the Church, I had a religious ideal in mind for the type of man I would marry. God had something even better than what I imagined planned for me when he brought me Dave—this guy embraced life with …READ MORE
When Our Leader Was Innocence
I watched my two youngest daughters, in their early teens at the time, being controlled by the horror of sexual abuse which had happened to their youngest brother. To complicate the tragic incident, their brother also has Down Syndrome; and the perpetrator was one of their closest and dearest friends. After the shock, horror, and …READ MORE
