Posts under ‘Having faith’

Today marks three years to the day that Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia.
Our most craptastic anniversary.
Over the past 36 months, I’ve kept a Bible verse in the header of this site.
It was three years ago TODAY that verse came into my life.
I was curled up in one of those awesomely comfortable hospital chairs *snort*, just [...]

I’ll bet you’re thinking there’s some exquisite inside joke in that title.
And there probably is.
But that’s not what this post is about.
This is about the most infuriating bowl of rice I’ve ever encountered.
I’ve mentioned before that I had a stroke in July 2005.  The months that followed were filled with physical therapy.
Lift these weights.
Walk those [...]

Since the moment Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia we were taught that everything in our lives depended on one piece of paper.
Counts.
It told us if she needed blood products.
It told us how strong or weak her immune system was.
It told us if her liver wasn’t working properly, if her body was fighting infection, if anything [...]

It’s hard when you come eye to eye with traits in your personality you wish didn’t exist. Maybe you know they’re there and you work around them…sometimes better able to control them than others.
Friends and I have talked about the effort it takes to teach our kids, and especially our ones who are sick, to [...]

I have struggled with whether or not to share this much insight.
Because I don’t want you all to really think I’m crazy.  But, honestly, have I ever really tried to play up the image of perfect sanity?
Nope, I don’t even try to fake it.
I can talk about my crazy.  I can divulge some of the [...]