michelle joy waters

It's been over a week since we returned from our Holy Land pilgrimage. What an amazing, life changing journey! Many people told me that...

Little brown braids is graduating. Her college's slogan is: Hook 'em, Horns! It's a perfect fit for a girl who's had life by the horns...

Yesterday wasn't the strangest Ash Wednesday, but it was certainly up there. Twenty-five years ago—Ash Wednesday 1996—Eric got down on...

What a game changer of a year it's been! Join us for our Women's One Day Retreat: Game Changer: "See, I am doing something new!" We'll...

One of my children's all time favorite VBS songs is "We Do Not Lose Heart!" based on 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. The littlest ones always...

If 2020 has been anything, it's been loud. Too many words, too many opinions, too much noise... It's all been too much. So I've been...

I got to take most of the kids to visit our new dog today. We'll pick him up Monday. The big challenge is going to be agreeing on a name....

I know, I get it. It doesn't seem right—especially now—to complain about getting off track because of vacation. Seriously, I get it. Most...

At the beginning of the lockdown, I started a list of all the small, daily blessings this new world order was bestowing on our family....

Here we are. Not much has changed. School ended without any fanfare. We held our breath, waiting for the end of "Zoom Gloom," monitoring...

Happy Mother's Day! The greatest gift this year will be heading back to church on Sunday after seven weeks at home. (Just so you know, I...

Sometime last week, most of us got the news that our little people wouldn't be going back to school. We all knew this was inevitable, but...

There are two sides to this Corona coin: the simple slowdown most of our lives desperately needed on the one hand, and the fear, anxiety,...

We've come to the end of Lent. And one day we'll come to the end of quarantine too. Ending well is important in any endeavor. Maybe even...

The days run together in this thing called quarantine. For the first time, what we have in abundance is time. Hour upon hour of time. It...

More than ever, friends have been asking, "Why did you home school for so long? It's so hard!" There's a long answer to that, and it's...

We've all seen the funny memes and posts of frantic parents thrust completely and unexpectedly into the world of school at home. Let me...

As meetings, practices, schools, and travel get cancelled one by one due to the pandemic known as the coronavirus, we find ourselves...

Lent is a time to subdue our physical nature in the hope that our oft forgotten spiritual nature will be brought to the surface, refined,...

No one knows exactly how many thoughts we have each day, but it's more than you'd expect: experts say it's up there in the tens of...