It’s the most wonderful time of year… or is it?

A Canadian Perspective on the USA Election

I used to love certainty. I liked having my ducks in a row.

However, after five years of various jobs, various hours, and a seminary degree to boot, I’ve become accustomed to living within a certain degree of uncertainty.

Fasting from control means trusting in God to be enough to take care of me—to know my needs (my true needs beneath the anxiety) and to meet them in just the right way.

Those who are childless face a special kind of grief during the holidays. What does Advent have to say about the grief and loss of childlessness?

After five years of infertility and another year on birth control, we’re finally moving on from infertility. What does acceptance of infertility look like? Here are my thoughts.

When I told my doctor that we were moving forward with a childless life, he reassured me, “There is comfort in knowing that you will be able to have children in the life to come…”

As I looked around the church, I couldn’t help feeling like I didn’t belong.

I stood alone and wondered, “If I never have a child, then where do I belong in the church?”