by Emily Wierenga | Jul 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
*here is a guest post from friend Jenny H… please visit her here.”I’ve always wanted to deliver without an epidural, but have gotten too scared at the end. Can you help me?” I ask the nurse with Saint for her last name. “Of course I can... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
the lilies bloomed, the orange ones by the trellis, the ones i’d been waiting for and i cried, two days overdue with my second son and i heard his whisper, the breath of One who told me to get a lily tattooed on my wrist because He cares for the flowers of the... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
he points to the pictures, begs “oooo” for open, but i can’t. as much as i scratch the flat surface of the page, the book remains two-dimensional and my 20-month-son, disappointed, for he wants the image on the page to become reality. he wants to enter into the story.... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
One night last week while I put my daughter to bed we talked about the birth of the world. I believe the universe has been around a while, and I believe God took his time with the emergence of man, but that only raises my awe at His creativity. My daughter asked me... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
the sky is a pinwheel of cloud and blue and we’re outside trying to be family but i’m all belly and cannot find the way outand there’s drought in africa and flooding in alberta and hailstones the size of eggs and men and children and women gone... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
i told him i wanted to be a news anchor. i wore bell-bottoms and the day was spring and we were in bible school walking home the road that was never long enough, and trent wasn’t like the others. he didn’t look at me and say “you’d be great at...