Here’s What a Disability Placard Taught Me about Faith
This is how snow that has been plowed and driven over in a parking lot looks to me. No amount of light helps me see...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 12: November 2009
Jan 10, 2019
My walk through the Valley of Shadow started in October 2009, with pain and loss of my vision. I had heard a voice reassuring...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Part II: Shadow (October 2009)
Jan 3, 2019
We tend to build walls around parts of our souls, unawares, as a coping mechanism. We push our issues to the side and cover...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 10: Darkness
Dec 20, 2018
The next few days were like a nightmare, full of pain, anxiety, fear,confusion. I barely remember them, having to rely on my journal entries to...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 9: Pain
Dec 13, 2018
On the day after my D&C, instead of simply recovering from the simple surgery and moving on with my post-miscarriage life the best I could,...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 8: Blood
Dec 6, 2018
Early in my pregnancy in 2009, I started bleeding. The bleeding continued sporadically for months, finally culminating in an evening that left absolutely no...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 7: Fear
Nov 15, 2018
Not long after I finally became pregnant in 2009, I began bleeding. For weeks, my husband and I were stuck in limbo, worried about...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 5: Growing Things
Oct 25, 2018
In 2009, my year of shadow and light began. In this chapter, we’re fully in 2009, in the spring, when we began growing things...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 4: A New Home and New Trials
Oct 18, 2018
In 2009, my year of shadow and light began. Leading up to that year, however, were the first two years of married life with...
My Year of Shadow and Light, Chapter 3: Two Become One
Oct 11, 2018
In 2009, my life would take a dramatic turn and fall apart, and over the next following year, I would begin to piece it...