by Emily Wierenga | Aug 28, 2013 | #imperfectprose, community, counseling, friendship, mentor, prayer, womanhood, women
God gave me a vision of her. I saw a woman who wore scarves and laughed a lot. And then she connected with me over Facebook, this counselor whom I’d met years earlier at a conference, and she asked me to write a book with her for wounded daughters, and I ended up... by Emily Wierenga | Feb 4, 2013 | church, family, friendship, God, identity, illness, laundry, loneliness, motherhood, sickness, solitude, trinity, womanhood
Kasher’s been so sick this weekend it’s infected all of us, our spirits mostly, and it’s hard to stay up when your children are so down. you try and read the same Curious George book over and over, with as much enthusiasm as you can muster but the... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 27, 2012 | canada, church, closes, coffee, coffeeshop, community, crusades, damage, david platt, faith, food bank, friendship, Jesus, poor, poverty, radical, sabbath, sunday, unity truth church, winnipeg
yes, i am a disgruntled pastor’s daughter who grew up going to church every sunday and begrudging it. the hours spent listening to a father she didn’t know and the small talk afterwards (which i still dislike), the feigned interest in weather and health... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 21, 2012 | (in)courage, conference, encouragement, friendship, God, hope, love, marriage, real, webcast, women
grandma jo comes on wednesdays. angela on tuesdays, miss carla on thursdays, to help me dress the boys and to read to them. they go swimming with auntie karen, feed chickens with judith, make forts with juanita, color with jen, and play trains with amber. other women...