I was telling a friend at church the other day how much I wanted the whole world to know Jesus. We were chatting about the increased and increasing tension in the world, the sometimes struggle to remain hopeful amidst parenting stress, financial worries, aging parents and health concerns; our own aging processes and jobs that […]
What a thing to be both so proud of this community, and to wish there were no such battles to be fought, endured and victorious over because of CP. In an ironic moment today, I visited Dr. Rush because my body has been having some extra muscle spasms for the last week. As he was giving me […]
I am not entirely sure when I really understood that we are not promised tomorrow or even really the next hour… It may have been with the death of my beloved Gram. She was there, always there when I needed her. Until the knock on the door, the news that she’d died very suddenly without […]
If you read my last post, you already know that there was some serious both/and going on for me last week, with Jesus, with living with CP and with the work I get to do with clients. I have a pretty cool follow up to share… With all my wrestling last week, reading the book […]
I can remember paging through the Bible often as a kid. The pages were tissue thin, had a sound all of their own. I loved the “red words.” When I learned they were the words of Jesus, I loved them even more. I could feel the aliveness of the Word; hope, love and power seemed […]
We missed church that morning. That is not such a huge deal, other than the fact that we truly love our church community and we want to be connected. But we don’t believe that God is not understanding about the times we are unable to attend church. That said, we missed it…. I got on […]
When we parked my wheelchair on the lawn at The Grand Rapids Symphony Picnic Pops a few weeks ago, I was preoccupied. You see, I was finally going to see, in person, Sutton Foster. I could go on and on, but the short version is, when I had my youngest daughter in 2011, Sutton was […]
The spring and summer of 2025 have been a dizzying blend of so much both/and that even I, who loves both/and, am craving a few minutes of just one singular feeling… Yet that is not how it works, is it? Unfortunately, we don’t get to choose our feelings. Brene Brown teaches us that we cannot armor against the difficult feelings AND get to feel all the blessed ones. We must be open to it all if […]
My tears, frustration and pain seemed overwhelming…again. My body began to feel jolt after jolt of “electricity,” (muscle spasms) contorting and twisting in a way that was unfamiliar and scary to me. My oldest daughter and I had stolen a rare Saturday afternoon off to go shopping, when we have such good conversations. (Take note, […]
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that the last few posts have been focused on a recent medical procedure, parts of my life with cerebral palsy and many affects in the last few months. While CP certainly is NOT the whole of my identity, it is a never-hidden part of […]