Loving the One I Choose (a guest post)

I am so excited to introduce our newest guest writer, Pastor Sonya. She is a woman of few words,

Connecting with God in the Midst of Crazy

I vaguely remember what it was like to be a mom of a baby. The sleepless nights

From Blehs to Blessings

I can’t believe it’s already February. I’ve had a hard time getting my engine started this year and I’m disappointed with what little I’ve produced in the first month of 2017. I haven’t felt like doing much, whether it’s cleaning and organizing my house, making healthy dinners for my family, meeting up with people that I haven’t connected with in a while, or even writing this blog. I just haven’t had the energy or motivation to do it. For someone like me, who loves to cross things off my “to-do list” and gains energy by knowing I’m doing something good in the world, it’s been pretty discouraging.

Waiting (guest post)

As I mentioned in last week’s post, in honour of National Adoption Awareness Month I will be featuring a couple of families who are in the process of adoption. This week I am honoured to welcome Kelvin and Yoko Chan as they share about their adoption journey. Kelvin and Yoko are members of New Joy Church and have been married for eight years. They have a beautiful seven-year old daughter named Maiya and have been wanting to add a little girl to their family through adoption since 2014. Here is a little bit of their story:

Hope Deferred

I have to start this post with a disclaimer as this will be different than other posts I’ve written. There will not be any links or references to other resources. This is not what I promised you at the beginning of this blogging journey, and for that I apologize. But this has been a hard week for me and I need to write this post for myself, as a way for me to process and grieve and remember. So I apologize if this post seems self-serving but I do hope that some of you will still be blessed or at least come away with a greater understanding of something that is not often talked about in church.

Summertime

I love the summer. I know some parents cringe at the idea of having to entertain their children for two months straight and can’t wait till September rolls around again, but I prefer the slower, more-relaxed pace of summer.