God put a fire in my belly to get to this place. Last month the fire was replaced with a pit. On the drive to the hospital, where I am to start the beginning...

Last week a beloved family on our team moved back to America. Their 5-year term was complete, and a flight opened up for the first time in over a month. In t...

The same mentality I used to get through my unmedicated 44-hour labor with Winnie, I find myself using now in the days of COVID. When I was 6 centimeters dil...

I grab her hand and whisper "let's go". She looks up at me with a sly little smile and shrugs her shoulders "where?". Her younger siblings are in the other r...

It hadn't been a particularly great day. From what seemed like it came out of nowhere, my husband was sharing how he felt parts of the last month had been be...

I originally planned to write out my day today, just to capture what it's like a few weeks in to living here...plus Mike and I went on a date today which som...

Each time I try to write specifically about what these past three weeks at cultural training in Colorado have been like, I find the entire experience difficu...

The census is low at work, which is nurse language for... we don't have many patients on our unit right now. And in our hospital, when there aren't enough p...

Last year I discovered tie-dye. I'm pretty late to the game, and had no idea what I was missing. Its cathartic nature rivals gardening, and since I can't see...

I was asked to preach this week on a super weird but hopefully profound passage in Philippians where the Apostle Paul says this: Work out your own salvation w...

UPS rang the doorbell and I ran to get the package. I brought it inside and opened it on the spot, with Winnie, Piper, and Boston at each corner. “What is it...

The rains did a beautiful thing this year for me. They turned our dirt backyard into a lush green park. The kids and I have slowed down the pace of our life ...

The meal was healthy, but seemed a little boring. Chicken, broccoli, quinoa.  I looked in the fridge and found a packet of honey mustard sauce. My kids will ...

Why Raising Ebenezer? Ebenezer isn’t a word used much in America, except for our cultural touchpoint of a miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge. Yet in diff...