To my precious blog readers! Wow. I cannot believe it’s been almost a year since I blogged. I’ve been healing, learning, surviving and—GASP—growing the third baby I hoped so deeply that God would bring to me in the wake of my second miscarriage. Reading my last post below brings me back to old tears and springs new ones, as I see in written ink that He is so faithful. Reese Victoria Mack, our third baby girl, came to ... View Post
I’m 32: From Me to You
Today is my birthday! I love getting older. I have absolutely zero qualms about pressing further into this decade. As my friend Jordyn said to me on my thirtieth birthday, and I haven’t forgotten: “I think a confident woman in her thirties is a thing to behold.” In that spirit, I would love to share with you these 32 things I know without doubt today, which I certainly didn’t know at 22, or even 29, at least not ... View Post
Threads of Grace
Valleys and peaks. Losses and gains. Doubts and answers. Soul-crushing anguish and incredible joy. Such is the human experience. Right? Unfolding in the predictably unpredictable patterns that make up a life. Of course there are the usual, everyday, happy-but-challenging, normalish lifey times, too. ... View Post
Every Time :: Part 3
Home again, for real. I couldn’t wait to see the girls, but halted abruptly halfway up our front walkway, filled with amazement. My mandevillas. The warm sun beamed down on the strong, exquisite, crimson flowers reaching beautifully for the heavens. Each individual plant must have grown a foot simply from standing up straight, out of the shadows. In a single day. The power of light. The Lord makes His face shine upon ... View Post
Every Time :: Part 2
If Friday was my evening of sorrow, then Saturday was the dawn of my rage. I admit that I held out a sliver of hope that maybe the worst wouldn’t happen and I’d get a miracle. But the heartbreaking physical evidence was progressively showing the contrary. Boy, did I pace my room in a fury. One miscarriage: Okay. I endured it. I prayed through it. I learned from it. I wrote about it. I trusted the Lord on that ... View Post
Every Time :: Part 1
I have to confess that I’ve wondered something ever since suffering a miscarriage between my two girls. Is a miscarriage any easier the second time, like after you’ve had a healthy baby to redeem that season of pain? Essentially, once you’ve walked through that grief before, if you are unlucky enough to one day face it again, is the anguish as gut-wrenching, severe? Or just to get right down to it: If, say, we ... View Post