Maggots and Compost: Owning Up to My Mistakes

Have you ever had an adult temper tantrum only to find out moments later that you were missing key pieces of information? If not, allow me to share with you an embarrassing example….

Ten Lessons from Ten Years of Marriage

Afa and I celebrated our ten year anniversary in May 2023, and these are ten lessons I have learned over that time that help us be happily married, prayerfully for decades to come.

When Diet Culture Infects the Church

Being overweight is not a sin. A person is either underweight, a healthy weight, or overweight. It is a state of being. It is a fact. It is not a sin.

Consider Others Higher than Yourself in Marriage

Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

Philippians 2:3-4 New Living Translation

Second Grade Curriculum Review

I use the same curricula with Ana Lia and Eliam, adjusting it up or down as needed. This is how our chosen curricula worked out for what we call our second grade year.

Hold Sacred the Opportunity to Apologize

Recently a friend of mine started working through a difficult grief journey, and she sent me an episode from The Place We Find Ourselves that she thought would help the process. I was happy to listen to it to help her, but as the episode progressed, I was deeply impacted and remember thinking, “I was…