Archive for the ‘Walking with the Lord’ Category

22 from above

I watch their days mostly from above them. I lean over his crib and tuck the blanket up around his frogged legs, from above he takes up a humorously small area of his mattress. I walk into the play room where he is crouched over a recycling truck making sound effects, loading and unloading the [...]

25 the swing of life

Excuse me while I wax theological on a Thursday morning. Sometimes I feel like all of life hinges on a pendulum that swings between good and bad. There are times when things all crash down at once, the world and it’s troubles open up and swallow you whole. My senior year of high school. My parents’ divorce. [...]

123 and here it is, my breastfeeding soapbox.

“…it would be more pleasing to God to conceal your body at all times, even when feeding your son.” When? When will we stop judging people in Jesus’ name? I breastfeed without a cover. I also nurse in a way that I am personally comfortable with as far as modesty is concerned. So imagine my [...]

17 parenting dilemma

If you catch your child doing a ‘no-no’, that is, standing on a chair, do you discipline him? And what if that child caught standing on a chair was doing it in order to reach, let’s say, his Bible. What then? Then, if you’re anything like me, you are so proud that you take a picture [...]