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Recent Posts:

• I (don’t) know better — Reflections on #Summit9
• Own Your Story: Wisdom from Karyn Purvis at #Summit9
• Why I’m going to Summit this year — and you should, too
• Speaking up
• The miracle I cannot see
• I’m not every woman
• Where I found God when my heart was breaking
• Awake
• Open Book
• Tell it true
• One Word for 2013
• Heart of darkness
• Borrowed words
• Missing Jesus
• Fear, Inadequacy and True Strength, or, How I’m Not Cut Out For Adoption
• The Giant Leaf Pile Under the Swing, or, What My Kids Taught Me About God’s Character
• What To Do With an Extra Hour
• Calling and role: What it really means to be a woman of valor (A review of Rachel Held Evans’ #BiblicalWomanhood book)
• What to do when all is loss
• In the reeds: Adoption, parenting and being seen
• On waiting
• How I try to protect God, and how He tells me not to {Lessons from Uganda}
• Mission, purpose, meaning: Living a life that matters (at home)
• The hardest day, or, Your life matters
• I will trust you
• Grasping at need: What can we do?
• Orphanage Day, or, How God Loves Us
• Getting Lost in Africa
• Meet Jane
• When a Mother Leaves {Guest post at Gillian Marchenko}
• Back to the beginning: Adoption and one-on-one time
• I am an ocean
• The Rush and the Pause; Or, Leaving for Africa in Nine Days
• Mended: What Adoption Has Taught Me About Weakness
• The hanging on and letting go of parenting
• Hazardous faith: Did Jesus have boundaries?
• Guest Post: Conversations with Ourselves
• Things you learn when you say “I’m scared, but yes”
• How to parent well when no one’s watching
• A time to speak, a time to be silent
• Love at fourteen years
• That humbling place where people give
• Writing the stories of Uganda: Trip update and jewelry fundraiser
• Parenting and Adoption: Mission or Relationship?
• Practicing love until it’s true: Adoption as faith (guest post at Shawn Smucker’s place)
• When your dreams feel too heavy
• In which yoga is saving my life
• Let me introduce you to MY BOOK!
• Guest Post at Chasing Silhouettes
• Staying Focused in a Scattered Season
• Love letter to my body
• Practices of Imperfection: Bending low, giving grace
• Writing as declaring freedom, recognizing the infinite
• {Honestly} Ignorance is Easier
• Because it’s summer (Why I’m wearing out my swimsuit this season)
• Practices of Imperfection: I don’t want to have it all
• She is young, she is old
• In adoption, our needs or the world’s (or both)?
• Practices of Imperfection: My garden
• Thirties
• When Father’s Day is painful
• Light for the next step
• Practices of Imperfection (new series)
• To Benjamin on his second birthday
• Pockets of grief
• Things they don’t tell you
• To June, in her splendor and glory
• Celebrating your trip around the sun (To my son on his 6th birthday)
• Week of Mutuality: A conversation with God, based on (mutual) respect
• Represented (an announcement)
• Play: The Other Side of Rest (my OneWord for 2012)
• Guaranteed to let you down
• Ordinary Courage
• Missing My Dad (Memorial Day edition)
• Where Security Lies
• She learned that from me
• {Honestly} Adoption is Amazing
• Perspective
• The Sun Found Its Way
• Seeing and Being Seen: Learning Marriage After Nearly 14 Years
• How Sunshine and Movement Bring Me Back to Myself
• Modeling a Heart After God
• Give yourself away this Mother’s Day
• {Honestly} Adoption is magical, because family is
• Preventing Adoption: Post at Provoketive
• It can all feel like a game and maybe I don’t wanna play
• Love thyself: Speaking truth to darkness
• The Wishing and the Roots of Depression
• When you feel like a parenting failure
• Leaving Church, Finding Faith: Guest Post on Rachel Held Evans’ blog
• Christian Alliance for Orphans – Summit 8
• After a Failed Adoption: Why We’re Taking a Step Back
• Love vs. Logistics: Coming Home
• Adoption is Everywhere: 2 Themes From Mount Hermon
• Why All Christian Writing Conferences Should Be Held in the Redwoods
• Grieving in community
• Facing a closed door
• To my 8-year-old on her birthday
• Now is now
• The tyranny of my heart (on surrendering hopes and dreams)