“I have to admit, Lord, I don’t really understand what You are doing here.” I walked around my neighborhood, praying as I took in some fresh air. Praying for my husband, my children, some dear friends… and I realized I had been praying some of these same prayers over and […]
Katy Epling
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.John 15:3 In her book Being Brave, my friend Kelly Johnson recounts a trip she and her husband took to Napa Valley, […]
March 6, 2019 by Katy Epling A few years ago, I found myself drowning in life, fighting to drudge up the motivation to do more than the most basic of tasks. Not because anything especially bad was happening, but because not much of anything was happening. Life just felt too… normal. All around me […]
December 3, 2018 by Katy Epling My youngest baby was also my tiniest one—just 4 pounds! I’ve never seen or held a smaller infant, and the feeling was almost indescribable. The tiny little body, tiny little lips, tiny little fingers—I couldn’t get enough! Holding a newborn is a uniquely amazing experience. […]
September 24, 2018 by Katy Epling Chronic. One word. Seven letters. But it seemed to take up the entire page of my daughter’s chart, hastily scribbled in pen above the scratched out “acute” that had previously described her pain. No longer would the doctors treat Grace’s symptoms as something just in […]
August 13, 2018 by Katy Epling This morning I watched two of my kids climb on the bus. I’ve been doing this whole first-day-of-school thing for several years now, but this was a big one. The first year of middle school for my son. The last year of middle school for […]
July 2, 2018 by Katy Epling As a child, I had awful recurring nightmares. Over the years a few different “plots” played on repeat in my head, some of which I can still remember. All of them ended the same way, though: me waking up in terror, summoning my courage to […]
June 6, 2018 by Katy Epling Tell me if this sounds familiar… You can’t even deal with the alarm clock this morning, and you hit the snooze one time too many. Now you’re too far behind to get a shower, so you throw on whatever is closest and get the kids […]
May 7, 2018 by Katy Epling “I just want to be shallow and happy!” I cried. I was sitting at dinner with friends, a much-needed break in a hard season. I was still struggling with my son’s Down syndrome diagnosis, still stumbling through depression. Overwhelmed by the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in my […]
April 9, 2018 by Katy Epling Sometimes we find ourselves living a life full of plot twists we never imagined. We set out on a path in our youth, certain that we know where it is headed—when the Playwright of our lives has something entirely different in mind. A broken relationship, […]
January 17, 2018 by Katy Epling Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against […]
December 4, 2017 by Katy Epling But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.Luke 2:19 “Mom, we lost baby Jesus. I can’t find him anywhere!” You’d think this statement would have come from one of my kids, but no, it was me, a 30-something grown-up, calling […]