The Same Way We Made Him
We want to believe that good parenting produces good outcomes. Adolescence asks a more frightening question: what happens when loving parents discover that a child is not an equation they can solve?
Susan H.
I Want to Live
From the outside, life looked ordinary. Inside, dark waves kept returning. An old journal entry about depression, uncertainty, faith, and the simple plea: I want to live.
What AI Reveals About Being Human
Perhaps the deepest danger of AI is not that machines are becoming too human, but that they expose how lonely, wounded, and hungry for connection human beings already are.
Notes from a Depressed Day
An old journal entry about the invisible effort of living through depression, the loneliness of pain that cannot always be explained, and the fragile hope of making it through another day.
A Wide Enough Fence
Elephants raised a rhinoceros. A rhinoceros raised a penguin. Reading The Long, Long Night to my children made me think about love, letting go, and helping them one day find their own sea.
A Listening Heart
Solomon asked for a listening heart. Perhaps that is because truly hearing someone requires more than ears—it requires enough love to understand the heart behind the words.
Let Them Draw Their Own Picture
Trusting a child is not the same as expecting them to become what we imagined. Maybe it means giving them enough room to draw a life of their own.
The Courage to Survive
What if courage is not only fighting to the end? Radical Hope asks us to consider the courage to let go, admit weakness, ask for help, and survive so there can still be a next generation.
Drink From Wells You Didn’t Dig
Why dig every well from scratch when someone else has already spent years finding water? A reflection on learning from older people—and becoming someone worth learning from.
What Are We Really Praying for When We Pray for a Spouse?
Praying for a future spouse may be less about asking God for the person we have imagined and more about praying for another person—and learning to seek God’s will.