On today's episode: "Right now, our family has some dinosaur-sized worries. There are a lot of answers that we seek, but we don’t have and we don’t know when we’ll get them. It feels a lot like we just ran in circles, looking for the car in the crowded parking lot and we still can’t find it. The rain is coming soon, we can see the blackness of the sky, and we don’t know where we’ll take cover. In this current place, there is so much angst and anxiety and fear. But God."

On today's episode: "Knowing what’s coming and how things will turn out takes no faith at all. It takes zero trust in the One who gave us every reason to trust. Clarity puts the ball in our court and makes it about us. No, no. We don’t need clarity. We need more faith in a God that provides for our every need in a way that we’ll never understand. It’s not about you."

On today's episode: "The plan was always that she’d move in with us if the time ever came that her cancer returned. It wasn’t until one morning soon after the biopsy came back as I moved the small amount of my youngest son’s things into his big brother’s room that it hit me."

On today's episode: "Honestly, this next thought is what pushes me to my knees. I didn’t deserve it either. If we go around believing that the thing someone did to us is somehow worse than the things we’ve done, we missed it. In our sin, the Lord saw fit for us to be forgiven. The truth and beauty of the Gospel is that. He died for us while we were still sinners. Let that sink in."

On today's episode: "It’s going to take some time, but eventually, you’re going to realize that you spent the majority of your life parading around as someone you aren’t. And then, you’re going to get sick of it. You’re going to get tired. Something is going to snap and you’re finally going to open your eyes and your ears to see and hear the beautiful things that Jesus has always thought of you."

On today's episode: "I’ll be honest. When the news came that my Mother in Law had one to three months left to live, it hit me in the gut so hard, I actually gasped out loud “I can’t do this!” It’s not the caregiving or having her living in our home that’s hard. It’s the gut wrenching agony of the days leading up to and after losing someone that makes me fret."

On today's episode: "There is a promise that I cling to. A promise of what awaits us after we take our last breath here. Lately, I close my eyes and the tears come as I imagine the beauty that awaits us. To bask in His presence. Sit at His feet. Worship Him for all of eternity. To be whole. Gosh, what that must be like! And she’s right there on the edge of it. She knows. We know. And my heart could nearly burst when I think on the beauty and overwhelming peace."

On today's episode: "But let me tell you something. I’m weak. I am not strong, by any means. I’m disciplined, for sure. Like building a muscle, I have learned to be obedient and through that, disciplined to follow Him. But strong, I am not."

On today's episode: "There was an end-of-life kit in my refrigerator. A collection of medicine to ease a loved one on into death when the time comes. Hospice delivered that along with other medicine to ease her suffering. And I’d been relatively fine all while caring for her, comforted by the knowledge of what was awaiting her. She was getting ready to meet Jesus, and that is everything to me. But then I remembered making a sheet titled “Morphine Log” and I couldn’t breathe."

On today's episode: “is the way I’m living pleasing Jesus?” Because if we live our Christian lives in pursuit of doing the work of the Lord, really and truly pursuing Him, it’s going to get messy. You will be misunderstood far more often than understood.