Archive for March, 2006

Thankful to Have Been Loved as a Child

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Lately I’ve had something on my mind so much I feel I’ll burst if I don’t write about it (a true Shanspiration)! I’m so in love with my little daughter, and as I have pondered what it means to love a child, I began to think about what it means that I, too, was once [...]

The Pre- “Birth Story” I’ve Waited 19 Months to Write

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I’ve been thinking about writing my birth story. When I was pregnant, I always wanted to be able to write one after my baby was born, but in the end, though Anna is 19 months old now, it has taken me a long time to work through my feelings about what happened to me. In [...]

Kissing His Feet

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

I got to thinking today about what it would be like to be crying hard enough that my tears made enough liquid to wet someone’s feet, then to stoop down and dry my tears from his feet with the length of my own hair. I had been reading in Luke 7:36-50 today about the woman [...]