Day 8 – You’re not perfect (& that’s okay)

Child, we adore you. Really. It’s obvious, because when you asked Daddy last weekend for a puppy, I saw his iron-clad resolve start to crack, just a little. We think you’re extraordinary, truly, in so many ways. That’s the way it should be, I think – finding freedom in never wondering whether your parents […]

Day 7 – Burn Brightly

My dear girl – if you are anything like your Mama, there will be days when you have this fire in your bones, and your mind cannot hardly process quickly enough to combine words that express what you’re feeling and thinking and dreaming. Oh, I want you to have those moments. Such clarity and […]

Day 6- Allow Your Heart to Be Broken

Child, there are things in this world that will break your heart. Things that will be so painfully difficult to understand. Things like babies who are abandoned at birth, which can shatter a heart into a thousand pieces, and haunt your memories as you try to reconcile them with your own circumstances and story […]

Day 5 – Rest

Dear One, we were created for rhythms of work and rest. Just as a good yeast-dough bread needs to rest before in the process of being shaped into its nourishing, delicious final form, we need to relax to develop and grow into what we were made to be.

It’s part of this wild goodness and […]