by Emily Wierenga | Jan 22, 2012 | boys, cross, deer, foster care, mother
these days we’re weak all around. we hug each other more than usual and cry a lot, and look at our children as though they have just discovered gold. they’re so beautiful, and we don’t want this to end. these days of sanctuary.soon there will be...
by Emily Wierenga | Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am from a little church blooming and growing in size, a blessed bunch God has bought in.I am from scared knees knocking to stand up and sing, so I stood on Him and joined the team, worship is more than Sunday Morning it’s a life.I am from joining the Youth team on...
by Emily Wierenga | Jan 18, 2012 | faith, God, homeless, hungry, hurting, streets
it seems as though winter is making up for lost time, lady frost seated in our windows, and i remember him. the man with the plastic beads around his neck, and i wonder if he is warm tonight. his sign was crammed with black ink. it asked for spare change, but then it...
by Emily Wierenga | Jan 16, 2012 | devotions, family, God, how-to, prayer, sabbath, sunday, toddler
sunday morning and it’s eggos and syrup and snow outside. we don’t often eat breakfast together. trent normally wolfs down peanut butter and bikes off to school, me shoving lunch at him and spooning pablum and making porridge and trying to brew some coffee...
by Emily Wierenga | Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
It rained today and was about 39 degrees or so and cloudy. I can tell because I looked out the window and stepped outside. It generally helps, to step outside and look out the window.’I knew she was dead when you hung up the phone and began to cry,’ my...
by Emily Wierenga | Jan 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
madeleine l’engle says she found God as a baby when her parents woke her one night and took her outside to see the stars. she remembers the swirling mass of galaxy, how it spoke of a God bigger than the sky and how her parents said nothing, just held her, while...
by Emily Wierenga | Jan 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
so here i am, again, and you haven’t forgotten me, dear friends? and i, you… and this morning i scraped a bowl of porridge from a one year old’s lap.and his hand from the toilet bowl and it’s been a week of four boys under the age of four. one...
by Emily Wierenga | Dec 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
(i was asked by a reader at my chasing silhouettes blog how to eat during the holidays; this is my husband’s advice, as found here… merry christmas everyone. :))
by Emily Wierenga | Dec 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
December evenings linger long past dusk:the streetlights have been trading their watch since before suppertime.below them, a man pulls cars off a transport and into the dealership lot.snow falls upon the toque his girlfriend bought him,filters through tree house...
by Emily Wierenga | Dec 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s Christmas Eve and we’re shopping, piling rolls of paper and chocolates and candy canes, stopping now to let Mum rest, and then on to the rows of Pillsbury dough and eggnog. She’s getting that look, the one that says we need to go home so she can sleep, but we...
