by Emily Wierenga | Oct 12, 2012 | a deeper story, abandoned, appearance, beauty, body image, book giveaway, chatting at the sky, children, emily freeman, father, husband, leaving
Wind catches the curtains in my children’s bedroom. They sleep with flushed cheeks and eyelashes long and every night I check on them before I go to sleep, and every night I feel both afraid and awed by their beauty.I touch lips to their skin, remember how my mum... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 11, 2012 | black, brian mclaren, cherokee, ego, feminism, God, grace, homosexual, irish, lesbian, nadia bolz-weber, praise, wild goose festival, yvette flunder
It’s a blue moon tonight and my agent and I are drinking Blue Moon beer to celebrate. Around me are Pentecostals and Unitarians and Lutherans and lesbians and heterosexuals and males and females and Richard Rohr who’s encouraging us to abandon all labels and put on... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 10, 2012 | babies, children, dying, God, hard, holy, imperfect prose on thursdays, killing, new testament, old testament, parenting, prayer
aiden is talking in full sentences now, so i’m trying to make Jesus a part of our regular vocabulary, and i am putting him to bed, asking him if he knows how much God loves him. he stretches his arms out wide like a cross. “this much” he whispers.... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 8, 2012 | allison vesterfelt, anorexia, body, body image, christians, God, hard, love, marriage, mum, myths
Before I got married I thought I could do life on my own. Well, with God, of course, because that’s what good Christians do, but mostly, on my own. I dated guys because they were fun but my mum always said I’d have a hard time getting married because I couldn’t... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 5, 2012 | adoption, bruises, children, foster care, foster children, love, metamorphosis, motherhood, parenting, preschool
last night trent and i fell asleep together on the couch during a sitcom. trent never falls asleep during a show.the night before that, i fell asleep at the supper table. it’s been a long week. joey started pre-school, and i’m a mess because i’m... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 3, 2012 | conversation, devil's punch bowl, divine, female, femininity, God, nativity, oregon, she loves magazine, wild goose festival, womanhood
We’re sitting at the Devil’s Punchbowl in Oregon, watching whales breach and spout and the surfers are riding hard, waves frothing at the mouth and blue skies above.There’s a shine where the whales are surfacing, as the water glints off their backs, and we’re eating... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 3, 2012 | adoption, childbirth, children, glynn young, God, grandchildren, imperfect prose on thursdays, interview, nancy franson, parenting, pregnancy, the high calling
When my kids were young I used to tell them that someday, when they had children of their own, I was going to buy each one of them a pony. It was really more of a threat than a promise, as in:If the two of you don’t stop fighting and getting on my last good nerve, I... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 2, 2012 | book, chasing silhouettes, emme, emmenation, giveaway, plus-size, promotion, supermodel, twitter
Join us?So much love…. e. by Emily Wierenga | Oct 1, 2012 | author, books, children, conference, father, God, love, mother-guilt, parenting, selling, traveling, woman's role
I’m sitting in the airport, the sun rising, about to head out to the AACC conference and I miss them with a guttural ache.The kind of ache only a mother can know, the kind that connects with an invisible cord, one that doctors can never sever, and they’re probably... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 28, 2012 | art, chasing silhouettes, creation, etsy, free, gift, giveaway, printable, thank you
(to thank you for all of the love you’ve shown me this week, with the release of Chasing Silhouettes and so many of you helping me to promote it… i want to share these pieces of art with you. feel free to “steal” them for your desktop, or to...