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Thinking About the Cross

August 24, 2022 / CATEGORIES - FAITH

If we had no winter, the spring wouldn’t be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity wouldn’t be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet

The irony of the cross is that it’s a beautiful tragedy.

Darkness covered the entire world at the exact moment that the most beautiful event in the history of the world occurred.

For eternity to happen, the cross had to happen.

For the greatest thing that ever happened in the history of the world…

For the greatest thing to ever happen to humanity…

The worst thing had to happen. The hardest, most unbearable thing imaginable had to happen.

A Reflection

December 30, 2020 / CATEGORIES - BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD, FAITH

It’s interesting, as I’ve been reflecting over this past year… on what’s been both hard and good… I realized that the most difficult times were also the times that brought me the most joy!

Here are a few of them:

Letter to our Little

September 23, 2019 / CATEGORIES - BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD, MOTHERHOOD

I woke up that morning early and knew something wasn’t right. I was dizzy with a hot sweat running from my head to my toes. I ran to the bathroom sick. I checked my temperature, but no fever.