Please give me longsuffering, God, so I can smile when things don’t go my way. Please grant me serenity, God, to accept the things I can’t change but seriously to change the things I need to. Please give me humility,...

There’s no turning back. When that big Parenthood Switch flips on in your life, you are tossed into every conceivable life change you can imagine. Your time is no longer your own. Your sleep is interrupted, infrequent and faked. Money...

The past six weeks have been nearly blissful. You’ve surprised us all, son, to learn that you are actually a rather happy baby when you’re not uncomfortable. I’ve surprised myself too, feeling intense fondness for you in your moments of...

The past year has been rough on our friends. Our friends have lost many loved ones, another one recently received a terminal diagnosis. When we were in LA, we learned from our community there to pray with great faith and...

We came back home from your baptism last Sunday and you could not stop laughing, screeching with joy for twenty minutes (or what felt like forever). In an instant, things become clearer than they ever have been before. I felt...

I. When you first arrived I took you in my arms and I prayed over your life that you would grow strong, because you were so small, unexpectedly early. II. Our time in the NICU is one mixed with both...