I Hope: Why Does God Let a Child Suffer?

Why does God let a child suffer? Suffering in a child is never easy to witness. As parents, we long to shield our children from any source of trouble or anguish. But suffering may be the very instrument God has chosen to bring your child into a vital, loving...

Planting Hope: Finding hope in death

Accepting the death of a child is hard. Seeing hope in death is even more difficult. A recent experience with ailing flower bulbs helped me learn that finding hope in death comes when we’re able to view burial of someone we love as planting with the expectation...

08.27.2016 update

Maggie is resting and recovering at home. We were able to leave the hospital Thursday afternoon. She continues to be a quick healer due in equal parts to gifted doctors, an unfailing optimism and the never-ending grace of God. Remarkably she is only taking OTC pain...