One beautiful, benign, spring day, my phone buzzed with an unknown number. I answered it anyway. “Is this Mercia’s mom? I’m here with her in the college parking lot, and she’s about to drive her car into a brick wall.” As I raced out the door and through town, I begged God to spare myContinueContinue reading “God Loves the Prodigal’s Mama Too”
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Adult(ish) Children
“Mum, I thought parenting kids would get easier as they got older,” I exclaimed one day in desperation about my 20-something girls. After she quit laughing, she asked, “Why on earth would you think that?” Fair question. We raise our kids to be independent, but then when they try to exert this independence, we pushContinueContinue reading “Adult(ish) Children”
Bethany LaShell 