And you know what I realize now? That we’re all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It’s the human condition.

Not one thing we’ve done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn’t looking for perfection....

Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.

But ultimately we attempted to find some middle ground because at the end of the day we love each other in spite of all our many and vast differences.

But my personal favorite words of wisdom came from Gulley during the last thirty minutes of the trip, when she broke up a backseat scuffle by declaring, ‘When you lick the person sitting next to...

God gives us these raw, little people, and we have to form them and mold them and teach them how to operate in society. And if we get a glimpse of all the ugliness that...

Real motherhood is different. It’s better and it’s messier and it’s more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh harder than you ever imagined. You find yourself alternating between feeling like your...

I watched her with the crab as she ignored all my admonitions that the poor crab just needed to be set free if he was to have any chance of surviving. And God showed up...

…motherhood is the thing in a woman’s life that catches her by total and complete surprise.