In Him we live and move and exist.
Here's how our family manages hospitalizations: I live with Carson through the week in his hospital room while Jeff works full time, getting the kids where they need to go and taking care of things at home. On the weekends, we see each other for an hour when he comes to stay for two nights ... VIEW POST
Have you ever been in a place in life where you can't go back to something you left, and you can't seem to move forward because of certain circumstances, or because you don't have direction? Like this place where you feel stuck, but also pretty sure you shouldn't try to ... VIEW POST
Sometimes we become heartsick in the process of praying for one important thing for a very long time. Hope deferred makes the heart sick... (Proverbs 13:12, First Half) It is painful when hope is deferred, seeming to be out of reach. We are consumed with wondering if God will ... VIEW POST
It's been six years since our son's health began to decline. (For more about our son's difficult battle, click here to read Our Story.) Through all we've endured, God has been working a process in me. Showing me how to discard fear, build faith, handle constant grief and hold on to hope. ... VIEW POST
Since I'm new to blogging, I had a fleeting, stupid thought this morning. What if I run out of things to write about? Just as quickly as the thought came, I apologized to Jesus. Sorry, Jesus, dumb thought! That's like saying God is going to stop communicating or stop teaching us things. Won't ... VIEW POST
When your child is admitted to the hospital, the first thing the attending nurse does is put a hospital bracelet on your child and one on each parent. It serves many purposes involving medical care, but it also identifies your child with YOU. My son's bracelet has his name and ... VIEW POST
People often ask me how I have made it through the last six years. My real answer is I don't know. Sometimes we go through things in life and we look back over them and wonder how in the world we made it through, right? It's those times where we know without the underlying ... VIEW POST
Anybody ever go through emotionally painful situations? Of course you do. We all do, some of us live through more tragic events than others, but none of us are exempt. Because of our family pain over the last six years, I have had to figure out how to process pain in the ... VIEW POST
Everything in our physical world works against faith. I will believe it when I see it, right? Most people live in the mindset: SEE then BELIEVE. God, however, is always in the process of taking us into deeper faith. His goal for us is that we would BELIEVE then SEE. For we live by believing, ... VIEW POST
As parents, we always want to take the brunt of trauma for our children. We handle the worst part of a negative situation while we shield them from feeling the effects. We do our best to calm their fears, making sure they are fine. It's our nature to do that. For example, one ... VIEW POST
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