by stephpaigek | Jan 25, 2023 | blog
If you’ve known me longer than five minutes, then you’re already aware that I have a deficiency. I lack patience for all the things. There are several (pretty much all) of the fruits of the Spirit of which I could use a double helping, but patience is the...
by stephpaigek | Jan 18, 2023 | blog
When my oldest was about to turn eighteen, his father, my adoring husband, asked him, “If you could do anything for your birthday, what would it be?” Our resident daredevil said, “Take skydiving lessons and jump on my own.” This means there is no expert attached to...
by stephpaigek | Dec 27, 2022 | blog
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” 1 John 3:1The movie Knives Out depicts the death of a wealthy man and the relationships between him, his over-indulged, poorly-behaved offspring, and his...
by stephpaigek | Dec 14, 2022 | blog
One summer my youngest burned himself with a hot glue gun, and it has left a bumpy, scar that hurts my heart. It reminds me of my child’s intense pain and the fact that I couldn’t protect him from harm. Thankfully, he has embraced it as the mark of an...
by stephpaigek | Nov 22, 2022 | blog
My goal for 2022 (not to be confused with a resolution, which this was decidedly not) was to write a full-length novel. I wanted it to be a work of fiction that meets Christian readers where they are-in the hot mess thick of life-and entertains them without the...
