by Emily Wierenga | Oct 30, 2013 | cancer, death, faith, funerals, imperfect prose, love, marriage, romance
My dad (left) with his older brother, Uncle Dennis, who passed away this week.It was spring and we’d just finished dinner.We were living in Blyth, a small theater town and Mum still sick with brain cancer. Uncle Dennis and Aunt Marion were over, and they’d...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 28, 2013 | Allume, blogging, christian, competition, conference, faith, followers, God, prayer, publishing, writing
There are candles on the tables and the room is dimly lit, pillows along the wall and chairs with women, bent over their journals or over their hands, some sobbing and others just writing.It’s Allume, and I’ve signed up for the prayer team and for weeks God’s...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 25, 2013 | christian, coaching, making love, marriage, passion coach, sex
I met Eryn-Faye when I was on The Drew Marshall Show this summer; she has two passions–first, to serve the Lord, and secondly, to help couples experience true intimacy in their marriages. I’m delighted to welcome author and Christian passion coach...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 23, 2013 | gospel, homeless, hungry, inner city, love, mission, poverty, prodigal magazine, street person
I can’t walk into a fast food restaurant bathroom anymore without seeing her legs, the way they stuck skinny beneath the door that day in old man pants, with white socks and black slippers. A little girl and her mother were in front of me and we all froze and I said...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 21, 2013 | adoption, church, faith, fostering, grief, hope, infertility, loneliness, loss, miscarriage, mother, woman
You–who’s lost seven children in miscarriage; who dreams at night of being called Mother and who weeps over Fisher Price commercials.You–who’s been told her whole life that womanhood is synonymous with motherhood, who’s tried and cried...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 18, 2013 | children, cooking, family, home, house, Martha Stewart, mother-guilt, motherhood, pinning, Pinterest
The cookie jar is empty.The laundry, piled six loads high on the dryer and the boys won’t sit through homeschool. I didn’t sleep well last night and I haven’t had my coffee and all I can think about is needing to make those cookies. Because...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 16, 2013 | #imperfectprose, #miracleformaverick, child, Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Families, imperfect prose link-up, Maverick, Stollery Hospital, video
I met Maverick and his mother for the first time this past Friday.I knew of them, of course, as Maverick was in the same hospital as my nephew Lucas, and I had interacted with Rachel for weeks online, but this was the first time I got to hug her, to touch...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 14, 2013 | (in)courage, #miracleformaverick, ann voskamp, auction, charity, child, Congential Heart Disease, fundraiser, giveaway, Gussy Sews, holley gerth, Jeanne Oliver, Krafty Kash, Lisa Leonard, StudioJRU
In this photo, Maverick’s mommy is holding him for the first time in two months. She’s just been told by doctors that she is probably going to lose him. It will be the first of many times Maverick will defeat the odds. #miracleformaverick My friend’s...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 11, 2013 | changing lives, church, good news, miracle, miracle for maverick, surprise
(All of my prints, including this one, are 50% off on my Etsy site for a limited time only. Click on the image above for more info.) ***Listen close, friends….We’re going to be gathering together here on Monday, a whole lot of us — a...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 10, 2013 | A Stolen Life, brennan manning, courage, faith, God, hope, letting go, memoirs, sad stories, shelly miller
I was reading the memoir, A Stolen Life. I kept putting it down and then picking it up and saying how hard it was to read, and my husband asked, “Why do you then? Why do you read such sad stories?”I didn’t know the answer until I was standing on the...
