I love this quote from Courageous Women of the Bible: When we cannot do it all perfectly, we can do all that we do courageously. LaTan Murphy It echoes my all-time favorite quote from my favorite book, East of Eden: And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck…
I’ll never forget the day I missed my oldest daughter rolling over for the first time. My precious baby was in good hands, of course. My mother-in-law was watching her downstairs in our living room while I worked upstairs, futilely trying to run a nonprofit from my home office right after giving birth to my…
When my oldest daughter was born, many people immediately said she looked almost identical to her father, my husband. We quickly matched up baby pictures, and they were right. God is a God of diversity. She’s his image and name bearer, yet she’s unique. She has both my nervous personality and my slight build. She…
My mother forgot my seventeenth birthday. My junior prom had been the evening before, and I slept over at a friend’s house. When I walked through the front door with my overnight bag that Sunday morning, I fully expected a “Happy Birthday” greeting from my family, yet I received none. Exhausted from the late-night shenanigans…
A couple of years ago, our lawnmower broke just as the neighborhood deer began to foal. Over the next couple of weeks, we found four beautiful, tiny fawns hidden in the tall grass of our Texas hill country front yard. Initially, we were shocked to discover newborn babies seemingly abandoned, but we soon learned that…
