Recovering Conservative: Welcoming Holy Disruption
We are a nation divided. That is fact, not judgment. Further, we are a people and Church that don’t disagree well. We leave whole...
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Waking the White Woman: Christ's Freedom and Anti-Racism
originally posted by For The Mama Heart on 6/1/2020 To the women I hesitate to call sisters of color for how often it’s used without any...
Becoming a Child of God
originally posted by For the Mama Heart on 3/2/2020 VACATION’S VALUABLE LESSON Do you have any God-Baggage? Are you mentally answering...
Known For the Holidays: When Shame Interferes With What Used to be "Home."
originally posted by For the Mama Heart on 12/2/2019 ROAD TRIPPING THROUGH KANSAS Our road trip home for Thanksgiving was everything you...
What's Going on when God Feels Silent
originally posted 6/24/2019 by For The Mama Heart [A letter from the trenches] It’s at the point that the word “season” makes me want to...
Enneagram Basics for Motherhood, Marriage, and Friendship
originally published by For The Mama Heart on 3/4/2019 My husband and I will celebrate four years clean/sober on March 10th. My journey...
The Symbiosis of Recovery
This isn’t your typical New Year’s post. Partially because I can’t stand the way we decide to treat a random day as if it’s our only...
Reasons for Rush
Repentence. Rest. Quietness. Trust. I’m hurrying through my hurt, coming away from my brief quiet times with small pieces of...
Green Pastures
Psalm 23 is one of those passages so well known that we do it a disservice. You read “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes...
Held in the Unsearchable: Embracing Postpartum Weakness
originally posted by For The Mama Heart on 12/3/2018 I called it! Seven weeks ago my husband and I welcomed our second baby BOY into the...
MOPS and Me.
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) has played a large part in my story. From my sister praying for me with her MOPS group while I lived in...
Warrior God, Warrior Mom (39.9 weeks pregnant)
It’s still baffling that I’m standing in this place. 39.9 weeks pregnant with my second child. Welcoming change and joy to a family that...
Releasing Control: Embracing God's design for your family
I really want a little girl. I don’t know why, they sound complicated, emotionally volatile, and terrifying but still, I know my husband...
To Grandpa: A grief, half observed
Well it’s here, the moment I’ve morbidly prepared myself for since my young heart fell in love with an old man’s secret winks, the...
Some Thoughts on Easter
A couple months ago I stumbled out of bed into our living room one morning to Kyle who made a comment on the shirt I was wearing. He said...
Parenting in '18: What do you Value and Why?
Brady is here so again I’m put in such close proximity to my weaknesses that I know their pore size but rather than going down my typical...
Using Your Scars
I’m coming off a three-day women’s conference at which I was blessed to partake AND to serve during. I’m an introvert so the ability for...
On Marriage
This past September Kyle and I were able to go see two separate concerts. I bought tickets to one for his birthday, he bought tickets to...
Lessons in Food Poisoning
The human body is humbling to say the least. Each system waits patiently on a signal from another to step in and do the job it was...
Unseen
I was invited to participate in a group that received an advanced copy of a book written by Sara Hagerty that will be released August...