What does wholeness look like for me? I’ve been thinking about this for a few days, thanks to the #WholeMama project, but really, I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of months. I go through cycles of deep engagement and then withdrawal. I come up with great ideas and then don’t follow through. I’m…
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Day 27 – Flinching At Life
Art by messycanvas bumped from the archives I jump when they say, “Boo!” Why does my heart race and I feel alarm even when laughter has covered their faces, and I feel no shame in having been gotten? This fear, where does it come from? ***** It comes from sitting on the toilet and…
Day 13 – Owning Our Brokenness – Silver Linings Playbook
Day 9 – Introducing Structural Racism to Kids
[blockquote cite=”James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain” type=”left”]She looked out into the quiet, sunny streets, and for the first time in her life, she hated it all – the white city, the white world. She could not, that day, think of one decent white person in the whole world. She sat there, and…
The Privilege of School Choice
I don’t talk much about the fact that we educate our kids at home for lots of reasons, but one of them is I’m very aware that it’s a privilege. Choosing to use that privilege, especially now that we’re in a new community where the choice takes on greater socio-economic implications, makes me uncomfortable….
Incarnation – It Means Something!
Conservative Christianity has not taught me to be a healthy person, and it has not taught me how to raise healthy children. The view I was raised with, the advice I keep seeing handed out, the wisdom I listened to for 90 minutes this morning, basically assumes everything needed for life – even for…
A Letter to My Daughter, On Marriage
Dear A~ How can I give you advice on finding a husband, when how I found mine was exactly what the christian dating books say will happen, but with which I completely disagree? I’m aware that the beginning of our story sounds crazy, as if I imagined it. God picked out my husband and told me…
Fasting….a Capitalistic Venture?
Embracing Lent with the Family
“Underwear!” “Pillows!” “Hotdogs!” “Butts!” giggle giggle giggle We were discussing Ash Wednesday and Lent and what the kids could sacrifice. I’ve only ‘done’ lent once or twice before, both times only nominally ‘successful’. So in preparing to talk to the kids about it, to try and figure out a way that this could be…