Posts by writingjoy
In Which “Joy in This Journey” Really *Is* a Journey, Ill-Advised and Without a Map
If we meet some day and you ask my advice about starting a blog, I would tell you not to be a faith blogger. I didn’t start out as one. I was a mommy-blogger, writing the every-day family stories that punctuated our frequent medical emergencies. I do this very rarely now that my kids are…
Read MoreThe Saturday Evening Blog Post, February 2012
On the first Saturday of every month, Elizabeth Esther hosts a retrospective in which bloggers can link up their favorite/most popular/best post of the previous month. This month, I’m featuring a letter I wrote to my husband Scott as part of a new (almost) weekly series called “Marriage Letters.” The comments and emails from “How…
Read MoreA Glass of Wine and a Talk with God
Mary remembered the fever of their early years, frantic kissing, ravenous embraces fire ready to blaze at his look, touch, whisper She loved Josh then Or did she? They hadn’t yet faced the broken-down car the ridiculously-expensive vacuum cleaner salesman the lay-off the devastating family news the endless debts the midnight confessions ripping, burning, scarring…
Read More“Your Baby Will Need a Heart Transplant”
Our three days of semi-blissful (it’s hard to maintain bliss when you’re sore and tired and you struggle to get your baby to nurse) new-parenthood shattered into pieces on February 29, 2000. A home-care nurse unwrapped her portable baby scale, laid our naked girl on it, and frowned. “What was her birth weight?” she asked…
Read MoreI Knew You Loved Me When (a vlog featuring both of us) ~ #MarriageLetters
Seth and Amber Haines host a weekly series called “Marriage Letters,” and invited us to join them. This week the prompt is “I knew you loved me when…” and Scott and I decided it would be fun to record a conversation where we tell each other our stories and talk about them together. Here’s our…
Read MoreIn Another Life I Would Make You Stay
Elli Renee Bennett February 26, 2000 ~ October 19, 2008 I heard this song for the first time yesterday. Even though it’s about a man and a woman, I thought of Elli and cried. When I watched the video last night, I cried again, especially at the end.
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