by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 8, 2011 | Faith, Family
I don’t like to write too much about parenting here, mainly because I don’t feel like I have enough parental wisdom to use that as a topic for my writing. Sometimes, though, I think my husband and I do something particularly well and I do like to share those...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 5, 2011 | Faith, Family
I am not the mom I always assumed I would be. One of the best ways for me to explain what I mean is to show you this picture: That is my daughter’s PlayDoh. Four colors of it, to be precise….in only three blobs. With specks and flakes and pieces of different colors...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 2, 2011 | Faith
I hope that this is a venue where I can be as transparent as I want. I have something I want to talk about today, and to do so, I have to open up and share something that I have long struggled with. Prayer. If you are a member of my church community and know me from...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 21, 2011 | Faith
I awoke this morning with little else on my mind than my urgent need for coffee and my morning head congestion. Not long after that, as I sat drinking that cup of coffee and watching the Today Show, I got the news that has monopolized my thoughts today. My husband...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 14, 2011 | Faith
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover? So he sent two of His disciples, telling them, “Go...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 10, 2011 | Faith, Family
Sometimes when I’m watching my daughter, I get a glimpse of some other Jennifer…an older Jennifer, who is more developed and mature and grown. It is like a glimpse into the future, or like I am peeking into the window of something I’m not supposed to see yet. Or...
