Last night I fell off the Paleo wagon. Hard. For months I’ve been faithfully, fiercely committed to healthy eating,and I’ve loved it. I’ve lost weight and felt better than ever. And yet, last night I was a whirling white flour-white-sugar dervish. Why? Why would I abandon the plan to […]

  Tomorrow, our church will launch a seven-day fast appropriately labeled Seven. I am so excited/nervous about how this will go because I am not, by nature, a happy faster.   I am a whiner.   But I believe in the power of this. I believe miracles are created when […]

  Grace has become a rippling, raging mystery to me in the past few days. But it has also become as sure and certain as the sunrise.   It is, if possible, more ethereal and unknown in its depth and more tangible and unshakeable in its truth. Because as surely […]

  Well, Team Stern had a pretty rough afternoon post-op. For one impossibly scary moment, it looked like we had celebrated too soon. But, now as the sun starts to peek up through our hospital window, things seem to have stabilized. Steve is resting comfortably and we’re anticipating no more […]

  2:22 p.m.: Best words ever: He’s through surgery and breathing on his own!   Your prayers and love and encouragement cannot be…see? I don’t even have words to finish that sentence.   But I love you. And thank you.   Amen.