Tag: hope
Hope in Infertility: When Your Story Doesn’t Follow Your Dreams
Great Expectations
Four was the perfect number.
As we sat on that bench in the rolling hills of West Virginia, looking up at the trees, we talked about how many children we wanted,...
Thankful Thursday: A Decade of Love, Loss, and Learning
We were two dreamy-eyed kids, ready to take on the world. He'd just finished his first year of graduate school and I'd just celebrated my 20th birthday a few months before...
When They Don’t Understand
A Story of Rejection
You may be familiar with the story from the Bible of Jesus spending time with his disciples when they walked by a man who had been blind from...
Thankful Thursday
Living in a world where it seems like there are so many things going “wrong” can make it easy to constantly focus on the negative. Hurricanes, fires, countries threatening war: on...
What’s Wrong with Him?
That inquisitive look.
I run into it nearly everywhere I go, often in the form of a lingering glance or questioning eyes. My baby needs oxygen, and is connected to an oxygen...
Mold Sabbatical – Days 23-36
Wednesday, June 14th - Tuesday, June 27th
We had a few days with no therapy after Jotham's anaphylactic reaction, and also had an appointment with a doctor that evaluated Jotham's structure, nerve...
Chronic Illness: 3 Ways to be the Friend Who Loves
Chronic illness is hard. It's hard on the sick person and hard on the well. Discouragment comes easily to the one living with difficult symptoms, and simple life actions can feel void of...
Holding On To Hope
Holidays and other special times have a way of causing a person to reminisce what this time of year held in years past. Like my son’s birthday, which is at the...
