By Grace Alone

I have always had a label for people who habitually do tasks the same way or at the same time every day or every week. I would call them rig...

Last night the last thing I said to my husband was, "I'm really tired, so don't wake me up in the morning. I'm going to sle...

I've been writing a lot about choices lately, choices to be thankful, choices to look at the truth instead of what we really want to he...

For the past couple of weeks, the Van De Stroet home has been a flurry of activity. We received a referral to adopt Tadesse and Biruk a coup...

Last month following my post about my wedding anniversary , I had a dream. In the dream, Jerome and I had been married 25 years, and accord...

I have so many wonderful memories from childhood. Most of them are tied somehow to this place, the only house I remember living in until the...

"Not to be offensive or anything, Mom, but how does it feel to get older? I mean, can you really tell?" This is how the conversa...

Today is my 23rd anniversary. Twenty-three years ago my 19-year-old self and my 22-year-old boyfriend walked down the aisle and made a very ...

Inspired by Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts , I've decided to write a detailed list of those everyday things and people for which I...

I have a problem with pride. I care too much about how I appear to others, and nothing is ever quite good enough for me. As I've blogg...