By Grace Alone

My brother-in-law Jason and I have a good-natured debate going on. He is a die-hard football fan. I am not. On Sunday afternoons he loves w...

One of the struggles we've had since coming home with Tadesse and Biruk is their endless fascination with buttons. We brought an iPad (...

As usual, I had to have a rough evening before I could experience the blessing of the next day. Last night I was tired. Lately I've f...

Today is morning four in Ethiopia, Sunday, and my heart has broken. The morning after we arrived in Addis Ababa, we drove to the remote v...

A dear friend of mine and I have been talking much about excess these past months. We discuss Americans' dependence on stuff while peop...

When I was pregnant with Caleb, our firstborn, Jerome and I were overcome with anticipation. We planned together, I planned more, we bought...

Yesterday in my blog I spelled "Esther" as "Ester" and wrote "one one" instead of "on one." Now, i...

When I was a kid, one of the things my parents insisted on was being responsible. Mom left us a list of chores to complete every day in the ...

In my last blog , I explained my awakening in recognizing that both my husband and my God have my back, so today I'm going to explain ho...

Following a difficult year of my life when I lost both my dad and my brother, I had an awakening of sorts. On one particular evening, grief ...