In Him we live and move and exist.
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. 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 presence of God we ... 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. 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, and not by seeing. (2 Corinthians ... 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
Hello there, welcome! Before we get into some future topics, here is an abridged version of our story. (Written in 2017, updated 2021) Ten years ago, we were a normal family. We have three amazing kids and live in the same town in which I grew up. We had a normal life -- school, homework, sports, ... VIEW POST
