Symptoms or no obvious symptoms, breast implantation is a mutilation of the body. It is damage and injury and pollution to the human system. It’s a blatant disregard for God’s design. Our healthy bodies don’t need surgical edits. If an aesthetic change can’t be made with food, exercise and rest, it likely shouldn’t be done. Nobody’s cutting anything into me ever again, unless needed to save me from imminent death.

It’s so much easier to think about “BIG" things I could do, how large my platform could become, how successful I could be, how many book deals, how many degrees I could earn, how many people I could lead, how many hearts I could change... ...than it is to train my kids to love God, through patiently serving them in the little moments lived all day long, to serve them like Jesus came to serve, to encourage them to live the dreams God gives them, to show them how to love others extravagantly. I want them to extend God’s love to others, even when nobody is looking. I have to show them how this is done. It has eternal significance.

In 2008, I didn’t want to become somebody whose grief stopped them from living life. I didn’t want to become the woman who talked constantly about her lost daughter, who bored everyone with the repetitiveness. Or who made my loss the only thing profound about me.  Losing my daughter Grace made me a better daughter to the King of Kings, as I suddenly saw life as all for Him! His absolutely relentless unending love is pursuing us all, and He’s using every circumstance in our lives to point us to Him, to draw us to Him, to help us feel that love. Grace was His excellent creation, and I got to witness Him use her to give us a glimpse into His heart.

Garden emulates our Creator

Seeing His design in the joys and challenges of mothering four little ones

Foundations for raising kids who seek truth by asking why, thinking critically, and create