When You Can’t See the Big Picture

When You Can’t See the Big Picture

I hate jigsaw puzzles. Yeah, I just said that. I love games, but jigsaw puzzles mess with me. Even when there’s a box top to look at, they’re just tedious. I could name a few people right now who are reading this and thinking how wrong I am. (I will allow that puzzle-love is in […]

Resentment (AKA I Didn’t Sign Up for This.)

Resentment (AKA I Didn’t Sign Up for This.)

Once upon a time, I had only three goals. (1) Become a teacher. (2) Become a wife and mother. (3) Become a missionary. I never bothered to prioritize. Any order in which the Lord allowed me to succeed was acceptable. Not succeeding? Not an option. And it never occurred to me that those two little […]

I Am a Wife.

Boyfriend-Who-is-My-Husband is home, and our house is a different world. Giant, Bean, Short Son, Smalls and I did just fine while BWIMH trudged uphill with a wheelbarrow full of cement blocks, dug trenches, mixed and poured concrete, and his fingers stumbled through misspelled conversations with deaf children. I thought my week was hard. But no. […]