This is a passage that’s been churning inside me all week… Remember all those things, we used to blame on the devil? And all those things we left up to God? Now it’s a hundred times more complicated.  We must become new men or be satisfied as we are. Either way, we risk tragedy. -Sister […]

Everyone loves to talk about success and the journey to obtain it.  But what about the struggles of success? The struggles of success are real and intense, but if you know what to look for…the struggles won’t rob your joy.  You will feel the pull and weariness, but that darkness that tries to immobilize you […]

Reflections from Behind the Scenes with the Nate Berkus Show!

It is Monday afternoon, June 21st.  I’m sitting in the hospital cafeteria.  We have been here for seven days.  The days have meshed together that sometimes it feels like we just got here and other times a single day feels like a year. At 11:30am, last Monday, I was on the phone with my brothers.  […]

I’ve asked the SOAR! Recipients to revisit the idea of Self Portraits.  We are now half way through the year, and I want them to take inventory of how their self portraits today differ from their self portraits in January. As I approached my own Self Portrait, I realized how distinct this season of life […]

Warning:  This is a long one with lots of photos!  🙂 When we came home from Thailand, we were almost five weeks behind in homeschool.  The Denuge Fever had changed our whole trip, and it was looking like Pascaline would be doing homeschool through the whole summer to finish 3rd grade.  But there was another […]