Tag: Faith

"These are questions a 5 year old shouldn’t be asking. These are questions a 29 year old mommy shouldn’t be answering."

"One pink line. He reached over to catch me thinking I would fall apart. But I didn't. My heart just sank to the bottom of the floor...I fell to the ground and let out the floodgate of tears I was holding back."

"We live in world of drive-thru, take-out, and fast-food. Fast, fast, fast. We stand up to eat more than we sit. We multitask, eat and run, eat on the fly. We do not come to the table. It simply takes too much time."

"I was actually more terrified than he was because I realized I was trying to kill somebody."

"For me, as a Christian, that hits hard. To not feel the joy I know Christ has given me could almost make me feel like a failure."

"I can almost picture myself rocking back and forth in a white, padded cell as I blubber to my husband about being unable to control my emotions."

Why do we have no problem praying for God to heal a child’s cancer, but feel odd asking Him to fix our stuffy nose? Do we assume He’s too busy to deal with the little stuff, or are we limiting what He’s capable of and what He cares about?

"In a world that would tell me a laundry list of conditions my little girl might have, I decided instead not to worry."