by Tammy Hendricksmeyer | Jan 31, 2017 | Consilium Community
“I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God.” Colossians 2:2-4, The Message Dear Daughter, You don’t mind if I call you “dear”, do you? I know it doesn’t seem I have the right to use a term of...
by Kim Hyland | Oct 25, 2016 | Consilium Community
I lie on the guest room bed at my dad’s house, eyes closed, breathing slowly and deeply. Anxiety grips me like a vice and makes me feel like there’s a rock in my gut and a weight on my chest. The anxiety itself causes more anxiety, as I wonder why...
by JeanneDamoff | Dec 29, 2015 | Consilium Community
“Making the decision to have a child . . . is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ” Elizabeth Stone To become a mother is to risk heartbreak. Or, rather, to guarantee it. Sure, there are also joys so intense you feel like...
by Diane W. Bailey | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
The tempest comes barreling in through treetops, twisting and breaking branches, and sending small nests to the wet green below. Mother robin emerges rain soaked, pulling small sticks, twine and old Christmas tree glitter from the wreckage to build again. She is a...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
I love you. Each child hears these three words each night before sleep wrestles those busy little minds, and bodies, into angelic slumber. Why are they not this darling all of the time? Each morning Doc and I make breakfast for the children – bacon,...