by danking | Feb 19, 2014 | Faith, Family
Is this how You feel every day, God? Sending us out into the world on our own, knowing that our hearts are weakened from previous breaks and that our spirits are strong and fragile in the most perplexing ways? Because today, God, I just want to hold her forever. I...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 20, 2014 | Faith, Family
We were watching the video for the second time in a row when she said it. “I just….I just feel like she sings better than I do.” When I turned my eyes from the screen, with its shaky images of preschoolers singing in their Christmas performance, the...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 16, 2014 | Faith, Family
She watched my struggle, and as I put the last of our things into the car she finally asked what she must have been wondering for awhile. “The Lord did that to you, didn’t He, Mama?” And if I could have, I would have spun around and embraced her as I...
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 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...
