by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 4, 2013 | Faith
We decorated our house for Christmas yesterday. On one hand, I was ready. Seeing everyone else’s decorations and lights and trees caused some holiday-induced envy, and it was time, after all. Christmas is just a few weeks away. If I had really been in control of...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 25, 2013 | Faith
I read an article the other day about a photographer who has recently had his life turned upside down in the best way. This photographer had a collection of photos – incredible photos – discovered, and has since been given the opportunity to use his skills...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 20, 2013 | Faith, Family, Fellowship
It had been an epic morning, and not in a good way. It was a morning that moviemakers would place in a screenplay and highly trained actors would portray with humor, and audiences would double over with laughter in darkened theaters. For the two of us actually living...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 19, 2013 | Faith
Sometimes things capture you at your core, and your immediate response is totally out of your control. Sometimes a situation attaches itself to something so deep inside you that you feel absolutely dizzy and nauseated by the upheaval in your spirit. Sometimes you hear...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 11, 2013 | Faith, Family
The day….well, it hadn’t gone as we had expected, and certainly not as we had hoped. That morning, it seemed that my daughter’s stomach virus was clearing out; by lunchtime, though, her fever had spiked again and her lethargy was at its worst. Her...