Adam hates waiting. When he was in first grade, he often got to be the line leader for his class when they left the classroom.  But Adam didn’t like to wait, so when the teacher said, “Line up at the door,” he’d just open the door and leave.  Every reminder, “Adam,wait,” he met with frustration.  “Please, wait!!” […]

“And a sword will pierce your own soul too.” ~Simeon (man “moved by the Holy Spirit”) to Mary (mother of the Savior of all mankind) the gospel of Luke, chapter 2, verse 35 She could not have known.  Standing there, with her baby just over a month old, showing up as she was for obedience—Mary […]

We’re sitting in a circle, you and I, with half a dozen other people we love.  It’s late at night, past the hour when everyone started yawning, past the time when we all ambled into the kitchen looking for snacks, all the way past pitch dark and silence to that hour when the world seems […]

A few Sundays ago, Kevin led the thoughts before the communion in worship.  I missed the public presentation because I was in the nursery singing Jesus Loves Me to a few beautiful toddlers, but Kevin had shared it with me the night before.  These thoughts, given by the Spirit, brought both of us to tears.  I […]

This morning, Adam couldn’t find his favorite math worksheet. “Three Steps?” he said to me, his face a few inches from mine, his body leaning in to where I sat sipping my coffee on the porch. Adam and I had communicated enough about Three Steps in the last week for me to know (finally) that this […]

lav·ish [lav-ish]–adjective 1.expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending. 2.using or giving in great amounts; prodigal How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!~1 John 3:1 I came into this world on Easter Sunday, the same year my dad started his business.  My dad is a Certified Public Accountant, […]

Last weekend, Adam went camping with his dad for the first time.  And the most wonderful thing happened: he had a blast. Living with autism, there are things we parents just get used to not being able to do with our children.  We stand in groups of parents who are chattering about all the things […]

Summer makes me long for timelessness. By that I mean both the sensation of being tied to no particular time or schedule and, simply, eternity. On summer weekends, we often linger by the neighborhood pool in the evenings, talking and laughing with good friends while our children and their children splash and swim, the sounds […]

A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.~ Proverbs 25:11 Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. ~Ephesians 4:29 You know, words don’t really come easily to any of us. But in […]

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me (2 Corinthians 12:9). ~the apostle Paul, self-proclaimed “the worst of sinners” in his first letter to Timothy I really hate it […]