by Emily Wierenga | Aug 26, 2013 | #MOPS, children, faith, God, laundry, mess, mother of preschoolers, motherhood, parenting, prayer, preschoolers, repentance, TV
Dear Lord,Thank you for today. (Kasher, get your hand out of the toilet!) Thank you for loving me in spite of me. (Is that a fly in my coffee? No, Aiden, you’ve already watched a show–now it’s time to play nicely with your brother while... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 23, 2013 | #TheGlobeandMail, children, Crisis, God, guns, pacifism, peace, peacemaking, refugees, Sammy Yatim, Syria, UN, violence, war
My boys are asleep in the room next-door. They are young enough to believe in magic and tickles. They are young enough to ask me to pray when they get sick. And they’ll always be young to me.via reckless youth instagramBut the world has a way of forgetting... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 26, 2013 | #royalbaby, abortion, birth, broken, duke, dutchess, faith, God, kingdom, lisa-jo baker, miscarriage, Prince George
Sometimes my two-year-old still smells like a newborn. When he’s so deep in sleep his eyelids are fluttering and I put my nose to his hair and catch the remaining wafts of infancy, rising like fresh-tilled earth and crocuses.But those moments are rare and even... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 17, 2013 | #imperfectprose, blogging, camping, God, homeless, hungry, hurt, imperfect prose on thursdays, Jesus, pain, street people
Kasher is chanting on the top of Trent’s shoulders, and it sounds like a monk’s song. We’re camping at Snaring River where we tented back when I was 39 weeks with the same boy. There are no flush toilets here. No hot showers. Just the bare smell of nature,... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 15, 2013 | faith, God, hypocrisy, ink, Jesus, Leviticus, Old Testament rules, piercings, sin, tattoos
This is me a couple of years ago: dreads, stretched ears, piercings, and tats.I have three tattoos. And I love Jesus.A number of people have called me a hypocrite over the past week, regarding my latest tat (the one I got with my husband–you can read about it... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 10, 2013 | bride of Christ, christianity, divorce, doubt, faith, God, marriage, Zena Neds-Fox
I met Zena Neds-Fox through the Imperfect Prose link-up and have been smitten with her words and her love for Christ. So delighted to have her here while we take a much needed week off, camping in Banff and Jasper and enjoying the smell of each other’s skin....