A couple of years ago, I was trying to be more purposeful about prayer in my daily life. The truth is I have always struggled with prayer...

April has been a month full of stress. First I came down with Shingles. I had mild pain from the rash along my back and in my eye, but th...

Sometimes people think that, as Christians, we have to be manically happy all the time in times of struggle. We have learned the verse, “...

I have so much to write about and so little time to do it. I have at least 10 blog posts planned out in my head, but I haven’t had a spar...

Daniel has had a really crazy few weeks. He had his Glenn surgery early. He developed a coarctation of his aorta, which sent him into hea...

It has taken me 3 days to be in a place where I felt that I could write about what happened Thursday night. Even now I don’t feel “comfor...

Tomorrow is the big day. Daniel will be getting his Glenn. They will take him between 9:00 a.m. and 10 a.m. On his CT scan today, we got ...

Since finding out Daniel’s diagnosis, I have joined a few groups on Facebook for families of children with heart defects. One of the grou...

Recently I have started reading Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis. He begins his book with this thought: “This is not a work of sch...

After the dust settled on Daniel’s diagnosis, I went into overdrive. My initial coping mechanism was to collect as much information as po...