Give yourself a moment to look back over the last ten months. Even if your life does not ebb and flow with the school calendar, it is fitting to think of what has passed and what God has brought you through. How have you served? What have you gained? What have you lost? Who have you loved? What have you learned? Who walked beside you? Praise the LORD!

“You see, I never wanted to be a teacher. I knew too many of them. Professional and extremely educated men and women navigating the turbulent waters of the US education system. I had my opinions– opinions that I won’t dive into at the moment because this isn’t the place for it.”

If I had to assign a theme for our day yesterday, it would be wonder. Wonder that “feeling of admiration, surprise, or awe caused by something new, unexpected, or inexplicable.” And if I had to name a quality too few people, especially evangelical Christians value, it would also be wonder. How rarely we stop to be surprised. How reticent we are to express awe at the every day miracles we encounter.

Why Preparing for Postpartum Matters as Much as Preparing for Birth When families prepare for a baby, most of the focus is on birth. We attend birth classes, create birth plans, and spend months thinking about the delivery day. But while birth is an important moment, it is only the beginning. The postpartum season, the weeks and months after a baby arrives, is when a mother’s body heals, her identity shifts, and a family adjusts to new rhythms. The Bible reminds us that wis

I’ve grown a lot this year. Aside from the year our firstborn died at birth, I think this has been the most stretching year of my life. And honestly, the year that Max died was less a stretching than a ripping. Everything burst at the seams, and I had to put it back together again. This year has been stretching in the true sense of the word. A lot of discomfort – discomfort as I sent both of my children to full time school for the first time and watched my son struggle and st