Get any group of mothers together with a pregnant woman around, and it will only take a short while before the birth stories begin. I never tire of hearing the tales. Hours spent in labor. Induction. Ice chips. Husband nearly fainting when he saw the epidural needle. We laugh, we cry, we each take ourContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Fourteen: Birth Stories”
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Advent Day Thirteen: Traveling Pregnant
When I was five months pregnant with Elvis, I thought it would be a really fun idea to travel by plane with Lydia, who was ten months old, by myself, to meet Brandon and his baseball team in Florida over spring break. As I maneuvered down the center aisle of the jet with Lydia onContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Thirteen: Traveling Pregnant”
Advent Day Eleven: Wait, what?
There’s a moment after you say, “Yes, Lord, let it be as you have promised,” when doubt floods in. Maybe this wasn’t such a great idea. Maybe this path that looked so blessed while Gabriel was hanging out looks dark and lonely now that the bright winged angel isn’t nearby. You are small. You areContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Eleven: Wait, what?”
Advent Day Ten: God With Us
It’s true, I tell you, it’s true. Grant me this moment of ecstasy, this moment removed from the grief and the pain and the loss that seems to overshadow this season of hope. God is with us; I’ve witnessed it sprawled on the floor after our multiple miscarriages, in the NICU after Elvis was born,ContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Ten: God With Us”
Advent Day Eight: Mary Hears from Gabriel
“In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, ‘Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord isContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Eight: Mary Hears from Gabriel”
Advent Day Four: It’s Not Fair!
“‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah. In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land. In those days Judah will be savedand JerusalemContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Four: It’s Not Fair!”
Advent Day Three: His Resting Place
“A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.”HeContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Three: His Resting Place”
Advent Day Two: Isaiah 9:2-7
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder. For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the barContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Two: Isaiah 9:2-7”
Advent Day One: John 1:1-5
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shinesContinueContinue reading “Advent Day One: John 1:1-5”
Damaged Goods
Let’s talk about sex. Ba-by. My Kindle essay, “The Valley of Achor,” is about obsession, infatuation, and love. It is about sex and faith and God and mercy and redemption. I have thought so much about these things ever since I prayed at 18 that whatever was causing my period to be two weeks late wouldContinueContinue reading “Damaged Goods”
Sarah Marie Wells 