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

It was January 2014 - my first visit to Berlin. A city humming with life, layered with love, and stitched together by people from everywhere. They say many who live there aren’t even German, yet it’s the most populated city in the country. Berlin draws the seekers: people looking for a better way, a freer life, a place to be accepted as they are - to love and to be loved. Standing there that winter, I felt it. But Berlin hasn’t always looked like this. Its streets remember th

When It is Finally Your Time. Someday, I’ll have the time and space to invest in myself again. Someday, I’ll be more than just the caretaker, planner, and giver. But as any mother knows, someday can feel like a moving target, always just beyond reach. There’s always another nap to coordinate, another snack to make, another phase to survive.

We had a version of this conversation every day. She'd pack too much and I'd complain. 

The picture above was taken when I was walking one morning. I thought it was stunning so I stopped to soak it up. But of course as with...

When the kids were little we would take road trips to both the mountains and the beach. We would get in the car and eat breakfast, watch...