by Emily Wierenga | Sep 24, 2012 | autumn, boys, children, eating, eating disorders, fire, food, girls, health, identity, love, meal, perfect, stereotypes
we are sitting around the fire, pronging hot-dogs and smokies and children licking mustard from fingers and the smoke curling like an exotic dancer. we hear the coyotes strike up a chorus across the road in a forest blazing with autumn color and we all pause a moment... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 10, 2012 | book giveaway, children, church, denominations, flawed, hurt, inciting incidents, jeff goins, Jesus, perfect, sarah cunningham, sinners, worship
there was a pancake breakfast at 10, and the church spilling into the parking lot in trucks and cars and strollers and feet, and we got a lot of smiles because we have a lot of boys and i’m not sure what i’m going to do when i can’t hide behind my... by Emily Wierenga | Jun 6, 2012 | box, Brandee Shafer, Eustace Conway, God, imperfect prose on thursdays, mailbox, normal, perfect, problems, value
(post by brandee shafer)Sometimes I feel a little like a mailbox: chock-full, and mostly with junk. I feel crammed with sales pitches, useless information, fluff. I feel depressed by the news. And I wonder: if it’s true that what goes in must come out, is anyone...