by Emily Wierenga | Oct 9, 2013 | #imperfectprose, anorexia, appetite, children, daughters, eating, feeding, food, guide, how-to, obesity, skinny, sons, spiritual, spirituality
I am at the splash park with my boys, and there is a little girl, unable to move because she’s so obese.She waddles across the sand in her two-piece and then flops down on the ground and wails until her father picks her up and places her on the picnic table and...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 8, 2013 | affirmation, devil, enemy, fight, lies, prodigal magazine, satan, spiritual battle, truth
I was at an eating disorders conference. There was a worship band and we were under a pavilion. It had been raining all day but it had cleared up and turned warm, and it was quiet there in the evening of Nashville, Tennessee.I would be speaking the next day and...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 7, 2013 | bible, children, discipline, doubt, faith, freedom, guilt, judgement, mother-guilt, motherhood, preschool, pride, television, vegetables, working mom
Aiden waves at me from the water. His eyes look green today; other days they’re brown, like his father’s. He blows bubbles and kicks and the teacher leads them out of the big pool and into the kiddie one.I sit with my knees tucked to my chest, watching...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 5, 2013 | art, artist, autumn, canvas, etsy, falltime, feature, oil, prints, red barn
There’s a FALL SALE over at my Etsy site –all prints on canvas are 50% off. They’re $30 for a 9 x 12 print on canvas with 2″ borders to allow for framing. Shipping costs are $15 within Canada, $21 to the States.I will be featuring a different...
by Emily Wierenga | Oct 4, 2013 | alive, books, life, meaning, mothers, purpose, Wendy Paine Miller
My friend Wendy Paine Miller has a beautiful heart, and love for Jesus and she’s written 10 books. She’s here today sharing about what makes her feel alive, and is giving away her debut novella. Somewhere along the way in the process of creating my bio I...
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...
