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...

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...

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...

I've been SO excited to get to work on my messages for Level Up: A Life Worthy of the Lord. I cleared my calendar all day Tuesday and...

From our family is a few finals! What I've learned about having a kid in college after just one semester: First, the bad news: They're...

It's bye week for all our boys and our Buckeyes too so I have a minute to reflect on the lessons of faith and failure that football is...

One thing that never occurred to me when we sent our oldest off to college was that it would be hard for my little ones. Never even...

Disclaimer: four of my six children don't like worship all that much. I'm holding fast God's to promise on this one: "train up a child in...

Ah, back to school. Most moms breathe a sigh of relief as the bus pulls away that first day. But by day four or five, what begins as mild...

Introducing.... Pastors Confidential: two pastors, one podcast: short segments (usually released on Mondays) where we take the questions...

I have an album I started long before the days of social media, even before my short stint with scrapbooking. I got the idea from my...