by Emily Wierenga | Oct 2, 2013 | blog-eat-blog, blogging, christianity, contentment, dog-eat-dog, faith, Jen Hatmaker, Jesus, popularity, purpose, reality TV, success, truth, writing
I pull my boys close and smell their skin. The leaves are turning outside and plum leather is cooking in the oven. I’ve got piles of spaghetti squash and zucchini on the counter, tomato soup simmering on the stove and Trent, stoking the fire. I’ve... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 30, 2013 | Brian Holloway, church, dream, faith, Generation X, generation Y, Generation Z, millenials, open letter, potential, prayer, Stephentown 300, yuppies
Dear Generation Y,You have been called Yuppies. You have been called Millenials and Echo Boomers and Generation 9/11. You’ve been called lazy and entitled and special and spoiled.And 300 of you proved the latter this past week when you broke into a house in... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 27, 2013 | baby, children, daughter, faith, God, grief, infertility, miracle, miscarriage, prayer, pregnancy
I have a memory of my daughter, and yet, she never was.We weren’t supposed to be able to have children. Doctors told me when I was 13 and dying on the hospital bed from eating too little that I probably wouldn’t ever conceive, and then, when I relapsed as... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 25, 2013 | fashionABLE, foster boys, generosity, God, jin, joey, love, prodigal magazine, voice
I don’t normally spend money on myself. But when my blogger-friend went on a trip to Africa with #blogABLE, and I learned of their fashionABLE scarves, I had to have one because, goodness, it was helping someone, and it was gorgeous. I didn’t mind spending... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 23, 2013 | abstinence, motherhood, open letter, parenthood, purity, rape, sex, sexuality, sons, teaching, virginity
Dear Son, Life for you right now is Legos and Thomas the Train and Winnie the Pooh, but one day it will be cars and sports and the girls across the meadow. You’re three years old and learning manners and how to make your bed but one day, there will be...