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How to Let Go of the Need to be Okay

by Emily Wierenga | Oct 10, 2013 | A Stolen Life, brennan manning, courage, faith, God, hope, letting go, memoirs, sad stories, shelly miller

I was reading the memoir, A Stolen Life. I kept putting it down and then picking it up and saying how hard it was to read, and my husband asked, “Why do you then? Why do you read such sad stories?”I didn’t know the answer until I was standing on the...

on why it’s hard to be a mother

by Emily Wierenga | Jul 5, 2012 | abingdon press, children, death, heaven, just write, letting go, love, mother, motherhood, sacrifice, the gypsy mama

well, there are many reasons.reasons like rising when you feel like falling, reasons like producing milk when you want to produce tears and being called to represent every feminine attribute of God for men, girls and boys, and not knowing night from day from hour...

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