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Why I Hid Last Year (But Why I’m Hosting This Year) & 100 TShirt Giveaway!
Last year for (in)RL I hid. I fled up the coast to the safe (and most beautiful) friendship of one of my oldest and best of friends. The weekend that all of you met in homes and in churches and you...
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Teaching Our Kids To Embrace Grace
I grew up without a clear understanding of the grace of God. I knew God saved and that he forgave, but grace, this undeserved thing? It was like liquid through my hands. It wasn’t until I was an adult...
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Freedom In Community
Last month I made a big-time confession on my own blog. I was honest with my community about some large scale problems going on right now within my marriage. Right now. Not nine years ago or in our...
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Confessions of a Secret Perfectionist
I’ve never been a “house” perfectionist, so to speak. I usually have piles of mail on my counters and a dish full of to-be-washed dishes. But I’ve been a eating and fitness perfectionist. I’m laughing...
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Blessings for Our Enemies
A few weeks ago on a Monday morning, my husband stepped outside to walk the dog. Before he got out of the driveway, he abruptly stopped, turned around and raced back inside the house. “Sarah. Your...
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For When We Have to Wait
I gave up mothering for a frozen pizza last night. It was Sunday night after a long weekend and I opened the freezer. Score. A frozen Tombstone. I preheated the oven to 400 and flopped back down on...
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Included
Years ago my daughter wanted to be a Girl Scout Brownie. She saw the group of little girls in their brown and blue uniforms standing together after school on Fridays, giggling and waiting to go on to...
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Close to the Broken-Hearted
When I was pregnant with my first baby almost 12 years ago we joyfully announced it to our friends and among our church family. I remember one Sunday as I walked through the halls at church I stopped...
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Over-Committed
When we were in high school we used to pass notes in class. Remember those? That was well before texting took over. Sometimes we made it interesting by doing origami-stunts with our notes, writing in...
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By Invitation Only
I lived most of my life on the edges of cliques. I walked the borders between groups of friends and I bridged gaps between people. And this, of course, was all unintentional because I always would...
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Peace in the Making
It happened in the kitchen. Around a skillet of cheesy eggs and another one full of turkey bacon. Breakfast for dinner only happens when Daddy is home late from work. Everything else in my life has...
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The Problem With January
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa When someone asks about my “five year plan,” when I see people that I know and love on Instagram...
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Your One Wild and Precious Life
It seems like January mornings are as discombobulated as September ones are, at least in my house. Two weeks off of school for the holidays, plus another few days of flu and fever makes mothers and...
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Why You Don’t Need a Big Story
There is a misunderstanding, I believe, making its way through our collective minds. The misunderstanding is that we need a “big” story in order to make a difference. When I was a girl growing up in...
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Hosanna
I fell in “like” with Haiti before I even stepped off the plane. But I’m here now. I’m here. And I’m in love. It has been months of planning and dreaming and worrying and talking and praying about...
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He Loves Us So
“Mama!” My eight-year-old yells at me from the living room. “I’m gonna take my scooter out in the front!” She straps on her helmet in the spring heat and she darts out of the door in her pjs and flip...
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Leaping and Falling
When I was small I didn’t learn how to ride my bike at my house. I learned at the local regional park. We lived on a hill and riding bikes as a novice would ultimately lead to ruin. At the Big Park,...
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What He’s Longing to Show Us
This last week we had our first incident of an accidental, inappropriate Internet click with one of our girls. Accidental, but then, of course, as all humankind is, she was curious. I was in my...
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On Stars & Seeking the Light
I live in the LA basin and along with our air pollution and our drought, we have what is called light pollution. So let it be known that I never see the stars. I have to go to Haiti or camping in the...
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When I Can’t Do It All
As we walk after school she says, Mama. The kids said mean things to me. And I sigh. So I counsel and hold and I sway with eight-year-old bony shoulders engulfed by my arms. I talk and make all the...
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