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in which i sing a lullaby with my dad

by Emily Wierenga | Aug 18, 2012 | anorexia, eating disorder, healing, lullaby, minister's daughter, pastor's daughter, redemption, singing, song, wholeness

you know this. you know about my relationship with my dad growing up. how he was a wonderful pastor and sometimes an absentee father, how he read us bible stories and kissed us on the cheeks and home-schooled us in french and music yet didn’t really know how to...

we never stopped holding each other (over at ‘the high calling’ today…)

by Emily Wierenga | Feb 15, 2012 | anorexia, anorexia nervosa, commitment, God, love, marriage, prayer

I lie in red pajamas on the living room sofa, my husband, Trenton, on the other in his comfy clothes—his green-ribbed shirt with the hole and his fuzzy pants that have no waist. “Our good times were more than our bad,” he says in a voice that aches.“Yes, but our bad...
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