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    • To Vow Love in the Hard
    • To Anticipate my Fragility
    • To Get it Right in the Wrong
    • To Be Free Despite the Need
  • Mom
    • To Anticipate my Fragility
    • To Seek Quiet in the Loud
    • To Run Forward into the Unknown
    • To Say “Yes” through the Fear
    • To Watch While She’s Asleep
    • To Refuse to be Spooked
    • To Spin Through the Choices
    • To Get What We Don’t Deserve
    • To Rest in the Hustle
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    • To Be Free Despite the Need
    • To Cry for the Fatherless
    • To Rearrange in the Jumble
    • To be Content in the Mundane
    • To Sit in the Stillness
    • To Freeze in the Insecurity
    • To Rejoice in our Son
    • To Revel in Their Future
  • Life
    • To Settle in with Assurance
    • To Ode to Urbana
    • To Run Forward into the Unknown
    • To Slow with the Hurt
    • To Hope in the Resurrection
    • To Seek Quiet in the Loud
    • To Remember Ordinary is Enough
    • To Fall at His Feet
    • To Still Dream in the Now
    • To Begin Again from the Rubble
    • To Bleed Red with the Leaves
    • To Float Upon the Tears
    • To Spin Through the Choices
    • To Get What We Don’t Deserve
    • To be Saved from the Shame
    • To Rest in the Hustle
    • To Get it Right in the Wrong
    • To Lay Aside What’s Least
    • Thursday’s Thirteen Things I Love #6
    • To be Warmed in His Healing
    • To Rearrange in the Jumble
    • To be Content in the Mundane
    • To Live in Community
    • To Freeze in the Insecurity
    • To Grow in the Cracks
  • Foster
    • To Wish for the Perfect World
    • To Choose Hard for His Glory
    • To Hope in the Resurrection
    • To Seek Quiet in the Loud
    • To Say “Yes” through the Fear
    • To Cry for the Fatherless
    • To Rejoice in our Son
  • Adopt
    • To Run Forward into the Unknown
    • To Still Dream in the Now
    • Thursday’s Thirteen Things I Love #10
    • To Be Free Despite the Need
    • To Rejoice in our Son
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    • To Sip Soup through the Sickness
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To Hold on Even When


It feels like I blinked and a year passed by.  A year with probably fifteen half-finished blog posts, and nothing to show for words being published here.

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To Vow Love in the Hard


Yesterday Gabe and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe that the… Read More

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To Anticipate my Fragility


At a birthday celebration dinner the other day, Esmae pulled down a glass from the table, it hit… Read More

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To Call on the King of Kings


Have you ever been in the woods in early morning, when the light is beginning to break through… Read More

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To Settle in with Assurance


Leaving what you have always known, leaving the life you’ve always loved has this way of forcing you… Read More

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To Ode to Urbana


In 2007, my parents drove me to my pink and orange themed, non-air conditioned dorm room at Weston Hall

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To Run Forward into the Unknown


Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a part of a family where you are one of… Read More

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To Stand in the Truth


Lately I’ve been in a funk.  There’s been a lot going on around our house—the Lord is brewing… Read More

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To Slow with the Hurt


Currently, I have a cold, my kids have a cold, and it has been starting to feel a… Read More

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To Wish for the Perfect World


So here I sit with the dreaded cursor blinking at me, encouraging me in none other than a… Read More

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To Choose Hard for His Glory


Whoever you are, I think you’d be comfortable saying that you’ve had a run-in at some point with… Read More

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To Seek Quiet in the Loud


Oftentimes when I wake in the morning, my body begins to stir before my mind is ready to… Read More

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To Hope in the Resurrection


I have, yet again, come to realize that opening the front (and the back) door to kids with… Read More

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To Say “Yes” through the Fear


One week. Seven Days. 168 hours. 10,080 minutes.

This is how long we’ve had “X”, our new foster son. With his addition to our family, we now have three children under three…

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To Remember Ordinary is Enough


I’ve been thinking a lot about the kind of writer I want to be.  Not the content which… Read More

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To Sip Soup through the Sickness


We’ve been fighting sickness this winter, which is surprising because it has been such a mild winter.  We’ve… Read More

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To Watch While She’s Asleep


Esmae is my sidekick. And by sidekick, I mean, pretty much everywhere I go, she goes.  It’s definitely… Read More

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To Fall at His Feet


Sometimes I forget that my God lives in me. Sometimes I forget that Jesus is who He said… Read More

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To Still Dream in the Now


In a year swelling with racial tension and in a year marked by the uprising of leadership who… Read More

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To Begin Again from the Rubble


It’s been a long while since I’ve posted on the blog.  I think it started because I was… Read More

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Thursday’s Thirteen Things I Love #13


As my body recovers from so long without sleep, I am beginning to salvage some of my excitement for… Read More

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To Refuse to be Spooked


  It’s Monday.  The day most dread due to its’ inevitable role in requiring us to awake from… Read More

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To Bleed Red with the Leaves


I feel like a changed woman. This is not an exaggeration, praise God. You guys, Esmae slept last… Read More

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Thursday’s Thirteen Things I Love #12


I have been afraid to dive back into writing.  I’ve hesitated to pick up my pen or my… Read More

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Thursday’s Thirteen Things I Love #11


Well, it’s become a new tradition that my Thursday’s thirteen come out on any day except Thursday.  I’m not sure… Read More

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To Float Upon the Tears


A while back I saw this quote from a song I that don’t know, but the lyrics were… Read More

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Thursday’s Thirteen Things I Love #10


This week’s Thursday things, may push some buttons.  I may make a few of you feel uncomfortable, but… Read More

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To Spin Through the Choices


Outside our back door there is a spider that is disgustingly huge.  I’m talking half-dollar size.  Surprisingly, I… Read More

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Thursday’s Thirteen Things I Love #9


It’s barely Thursday anymore and here I am as the evening comes to a close, typing out the… Read More

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To Get What We Don’t Deserve


  The sky today is as blue as blue as Esmae’s eyes—or her eyes as blue as today’s… Read More

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To Hold on Even When

July 17, 2019 by Lindsay Walder

It feels like I blinked and a year passed by.  A year with probably fifteen half-finished blog posts, and nothing to show for words being published here.

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Featured, Wife

To Vow Love in the Hard

July 18, 2018 by Lindsay Walder

Yesterday Gabe and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe that the morning of July 16th, seven years ago my mom was there hosting all of my bridesmaids, with a spread of bagels and fruit and yogurt and coffee in the kitchen of my childhood home. That morning I woke up with swollen glands...

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Faith, Featured, Mom, Wife

To Anticipate my Fragility

July 5, 2018 by Lindsay Walder

At a birthday celebration dinner the other day, Esmae pulled down a glass from the table, it hit the floor and shattered into a thousand tiny pieces causing the entire outdoor seating area to look at us and the man at the table next to us to grab Esmae to ensure she didn’t step on the glass.  Tonight as I...

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Faith, Featured, Life

To Call on the King of Kings

June 26, 2018 by Lindsay Walder

Have you ever been in the woods in early morning, when the light is beginning to break through sky-high limbs?  The fog is dense, so much so that the rays of light are defined by it, streaking through as if you could wrap your hands around them.  The branches glisten with dew, heavy with the weight of each drop.  The...

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Faith, Featured, Life

To Settle in with Assurance

May 22, 2018 by Lindsay Walder

Leaving what you have always known, leaving the life you’ve always loved has this way of forcing you down into the depths of your beating heart.  It plunges you into these places of gratefulness and sadness and hope and clarity in a way  that I’m not sure I’ve experienced before. It has opened my eyes to, well, a lot of...

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Featured, House, Life

To Ode to Urbana

February 4, 2018 by Lindsay Walder

In 2007, my parents drove me to my pink and orange themed, non-air conditioned dorm room at Weston Hall

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Adopt, Featured, Mom

To Run Forward into the Unknown

October 19, 2017 by Lindsay Walder

Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a part of a family where you are one of two children.  Your mother has light hair and dark, denim blue eyes.  Your father has sandy blonde hair and eyes as pure, clear blue as a summer sky.  Your sister has hair so yellow it’s almost white, and eyes a shade directly...

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Faith, Featured, Life, Mom

To Stand in the Truth

October 13, 2017 by Lindsay Walder

Lately I’ve been in a funk.  There’s been a lot going on around our house—the Lord is brewing up some changes that get me really excited and at the same time really overwhelmed.  Do you ever feel like when your to-do list is growing, all you want to do is hole up and hide away?  That’s me lately.  I fill...

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Faith, Featured, Life

To Slow with the Hurt

September 18, 2017 by Lindsay Walder

Currently, I have a cold, my kids have a cold, and it has been starting to feel a little cold outside.  I am sitting on the couch after what has felt like a long day, full and tiresome, but my body refuses to sleep—my lids heavy, but my insides restless.  I drag my feet into the kitchen where I thoughtlessly...

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Faith, Featured, Foster

To Wish for the Perfect World

July 13, 2017 by Lindsay Walder

So here I sit with the dreaded cursor blinking at me, encouraging me in none other than a pushy way to write—to say something—anything.  There’s something about the cursor that reminds me every time I sit staring at it though—it reminds me that to say something is better than to say nothing.  It reminds me that whatever words spill from...

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Hey All, I'm Lindsay. I'm here putting my heart out there for you to read and hopefully be encouraged by. This place here is my life--my parenting, my home, my Jesus, my thoughts about life. I can't wait to get to know you through this sweet and sacred place.

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