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 | 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 | Jul 7, 2012 | anne lamott, books, children, help, how-to, laundry, liturgy, perfectionism, summer, swimming, tips, word count, writing
i pin the colored fabric as though savoring a mango, this slice of time so sweet, and the sounds of children splashing in the pool. and all i want is to rest. to open wide this moment and step into it, to sit on a beach chair and hold my babies and breathe in their... by Emily Wierenga | May 4, 2012 | children, college, laundry, love, marriage, mary oliver, mountains, romance
“to live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” (mary oliver)it’s not that we don’t...