The Blog
Here you’ll find honest reflections on faith, motherhood, and the seasons we walk through, shared with the hope that they encourage and steady you.
When "I Could Be Her" Is Not the Answer
There is something happening in the way we are talking about motherhood right now, and I don't think we should look away from it.
Mothers are posting through tears, saying they understand how another mother could reach the point of harming her children. Some say they could have been her.
I don't want to mock those women. But compassion does not require us to say something that isn't true.
The Foundation Your Home Keeps Falling Back To (And What to Build Instead)
There is a version of Christian motherhood that looks a lot like regular motherhood with better language. The to-do list is still there. The overwhelm is still there. The feeling of never quite measuring up is still there. It is just dressed in scripture references and morning devotional checkboxes.
I spent a lot of years inside that version without realizing it. I thought the problem was that I needed to be more consistent, more disciplined, more structured. I thought if I could just get the rhythms right, everything would settle. So I kept building systems. And they would work for a while, and then collapse, and I would start over, and they would work for a while, and then collapse again.
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