Topic: Parenting

Adoption is funny. It’s one of those things you won’t fully understand until it’s happens, like marriage, being a parent, being a certain profession, or [fill in the blank]. Here…

It happened over four years ago, but I remember the day like it was yesterday. I was at my parents’ house enjoying a leisurely Friday afternoon when my phone rang.…

My first experience with someone using the term "life verse" was about nine years ago at our church in Tracy. I was standing in the lobby after a Sunday service…

Let me take you back. Back to fall 2014. Are you with me? My husband Chris was serving at a church in the East Bay. It was after the 11:00am…

It has been six months since my father died. His name was James Gary Winter, and he died on December 12, 2015, 40 days after he was diagnosed with Stage…

Keeley is almost 4. The impending doom of choosing an elementary school is starting to weigh on Chris and me. Thankfully, other parents in our sphere are experiencing the same…

Moving to a new city thrills me. During our first week in Fresno in January 2015, we ate at three different taquerias to help acclimate ourselves. We received endless invitations…

Severely unprepared, I trudged through the fresh powder, seeing only one other brave soul who had given up and was heading back down. I gave him a friendly wave and…

“You should come back. He is passing away.” As I ended the phone call with my dad’s hospice nurse, I knew nothing in my life would ever be the same…

As we experience celebrations and moments in life, let’s pause and take intentionality in them, allowing the Holy Spirit to move and work, rather than letting the moments slip by.…

We all have this colander. Not the one in the cupboard you use to strain fusilli, I mean the one in your brain. At the end of the day, when…

Our son died on April 7, 1979. Kyle’s death was totally unforeseen. Never in my life would I have thought Kyle’s time on earth would last for only five and…