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“It’s going to be a long time before we all have dinner together again.” That was the sentence that made me cringe when my husband and I decided to move to Berlin. Sitting across from my [...]

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One day we wake up and realize we’re not children anymore. Another day, we wake up and realize our children aren't children anymore. (Ouch! Yeah, this is going to be one of those posts. Sorry - [...]

I'm writing a letter to all those montage commercials where the kid grows up in thirty seconds and the parent is a blubbering mess at the end. This is what my letter would say: "Psst, stop it." [...]

When my daughter entered her senior year of high school a few years ago, I was a complete train wreck. Seriously: I. Was. Not. OK. I couldn’t fathom how the years had slipped away so quickly and [...]

"At the core of who we really are--the most basic truth about our identity--is this: "He's with me." More than our accomplishments and failures and gifts and irritations, we are defined by what [...]

Generally we're not very good at paying attention, and specifically we aren't good at paying attention to Jesus. Here's why it's worth trying harder.

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  About half of my vocabulary as an adult is derived from movie lines. In fact, about half of my friendships were forged while watching movies over and over together. (Anyone else willing to [...]

Here's an apparent hobby of mine: Buying spinach, and then throwing most of it out a week later when it gets all slimy. (Don't even get me started on bananas.) Parenting feels that way sometimes. [...]