The Days Are Long

The Days Are Long

Recently I had a dream about two teenager boys at the beach (stay with me, I know that was a weird intro). We were at the Outer Banks where my family goes each year watching these two boys flirting with a group of girls walking by. I was laughing and pointed them out...
Shepherd’s story

Shepherd’s story

This Mother’s Day feels different because I am not the same mom I was last year. On December 17, our second son Shepherd was born. We named him Shepherd because we loved the shepherds’ story in the Bible and how they were the first to hear of Jesus’s birth. On...
Easter 2023 – The cost of the crowd

Easter 2023 – The cost of the crowd

I’ve read the Easter story so many times that it’s easy to glaze over it at this point, even though it’s one of the most incredible stories in the whole Bible. So each year, I try to pick out something different, something I haven’t noticed before. This year, the...
Waiting for spring

Waiting for spring

In typical North Carolina fashion, we had a warm February that caused many of the trees and flowers in my yard and neighborhood to bloom early. While it was beautiful for a time, we hit a cold spell last week and woke up to sleet and snow on Sunday morning. As we...