Watching Annalise, I am amazed at the qualities of humanity that come to her naturally, things I don’t have to teach her. Negative things sometimes, of course–but I revel in the positive and linger longest over those. Imagination, humor, a sense of justice, joy…how beautiful to see that these things are so intrinsic to human […]
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Recently a couple of ladies–older moms I respect and admire–made comments on a few of my blog posts that show me I’m not the only woman who grapples with the change in identity that comes with motherhood. “I didn’t quite know who I had become,” one said, referring to how it feels to be a
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“I don’t care about anything anymore but being a mother,” I told Ivan the other day. “My whole world revolves around Annalise. I don’t even read the news. I’ve become like all mothers everywhere…boring.” At least that’s what I thought of moms when I was younger–nice, dependable, boring. In my world, it was expected of
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I was recently given a newly released devotional for sexual abuse survivors, No Shame, by Melissa Heiland, in exchange for publishing an excerpt. I want to share the devotional from Day 21, titled “Committed No Sin.” The scripture passage that goes with this devotional is Deuteronomy 22:25-26: But if out in the country a man
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I read a blog post recently by a woman who had been going to a church “similar to the Mennonites” and found herself in bondage. After leaving that church, after realizing her identity in Christ and that she is a beautiful woman of God who does not need to shut up and be hidden, she
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