"Luz had been abandoned and taken to the hospital. In some parts of the world, hydrocephalus is very curable if caught early enough. Luz was not born into one of those parts of the world"...
"Four years ago, I sat in an ultrasound room and heard the dreaded words, 'I’m sorry, I don’t see a heartbeat'"...
"I personally had to put my hope in this promise (God is our refuge and fortress) when my daughter was admitted to the NICU"...
"My seven buddies and I jumped into a van with nothing but a fold-out map and a printed copy of MapQuest directions"...
"My healing didn’t really come until I started getting honest with God, when my prayers moved from ‘proper churchy-prayers’ to ‘gut-wrenching, pouring-out-my-anger, shouting-at-God prayers"...
"I’ll be the first to admit I’m a control freak. I’ve always been one who finds contentment in planning and controlling everything I possibly can"...
"I love home makeover shows. Ever since I was a little girl, I loved watching people take something so broken and used and create something beautiful from it"...
“'You have breast cancer, Erica,'” are words I was not expecting to hear back in 2021."...
“'No fair!' Anyone who has spent time around a kid has probably heard this phrase uttered once or twice." ...