Rising from Ruins

I had the window above the sink open while cleaning the kitchen after dinner.  The air coming through had been cool in the warm kitchen, […]

I expected reconciliation to be a long, hard process.  People had told me it wasn’t easy, and I had read it over and over.  I […]

I suppose there was some measure of relief in finding out I was right. It meant I wasn’t completely crazy, but that was the only […]

I just wanted the truth.  I felt like Satan was deceiving my husband, my husband was deceiving me, and I was deceiving everyone. Sunday mornings, […]

Late February, I just asked.  I couldn’t take wondering and fighting the battle in my mind any longer.  It was a Sunday afternoon. We had […]

I knew in my soul that things weren’t right.  I just knew. But I had so much confidence in my husband that I convinced myself […]

I’m driving on chicken plant road, going toward town. It is a rare moment that I am alone in the van, without my four children […]