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...

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...

Any time I send someone a friend request, there is always a moment of dread– this person seemed nice when I met her, but what kind of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I wrote about my difficulties struggling with depression in a previous post titled “Zombie.” From mid-March until I gave birth, I had to...

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...

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