by Emily Wierenga | Dec 25, 2013 | brain cancer, childhood, children, christmas, lessons, mum, nativity, the high calling
It’s December 25, 2009. My son is just over a month old in his blue booties, the ones I bought this summer in Italy when I went to Lake Como for a writer’s conference.And I feel like Hannah.Aiden is my miracle child, the one we’ve been praying for the past few years,... by Emily Wierenga | Nov 30, 2012 | author, famous, God, humility, identity, news anchor, spotlight, the high calling, TV
(photo by JustinaGibson.com)“Why do you want to be on TV?”We were walking home from Mount Carmel Bible School, along the same stretch of asphalt we walked every day and he was a farm-boy from Neerlandia, a small Dutch community with three reformed churches. And he... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 3, 2012 | adoption, childbirth, children, glynn young, God, grandchildren, imperfect prose on thursdays, interview, nancy franson, parenting, pregnancy, the high calling
When my kids were young I used to tell them that someday, when they had children of their own, I was going to buy each one of them a pony. It was really more of a threat than a promise, as in:If the two of you don’t stop fighting and getting on my last good nerve, I... by Emily Wierenga | May 16, 2012 | blessing, foster children, God, help, hope, marriage, parenting, partnership, the high calling
It’s just nine in the morning, and I’m wishing to hear the garage door sliding shut, meaning Trenton is home, his bike parked.And I’ve never told him, because I’m too embarrassed of needing him this way. This desperate schoolgirl way that jumps when I hear him...