Father’s play a key role in parenting a child, but many aren’t empowered to do so after an unplanned pregnancy.
Abortion
In an honest and heartfelt interview, Greg Smalley, Vice President of Marriage at Focus on the Family, opens up about what it’s like to be a post-abortive father. Raised in a Christian home, under the leadership of a prominent Christian minister, Greg Smalley understood that his life choices would affect more lives than his own. …
The day he held his child was the day he decided that he wasn’t going to let his fears dictate our future.
True and Proper Worship Even though I am 21 years old, I have always considered myself to be an “old soul.” I love the idea of doing things the old-fashioned way. “Old-school” simple routines and authentic relationships have always been extremely attractive to me, and those flavors of life have been revealed to me through …
In a single moment, my heart turned from being filled with hate to being beautifully broken and submitted.
I distinctly remember the first Mother’s Day after I experienced my abortions. I can still picture the scene as me, my parents and my siblings loaded into the family minivan to head to church. As I think back to that gorgeous, Texas spring day, I can still see the sun shining brightly in the sky …
Time is a funny thing. Sometimes it seems to run, and sometimes it seems to walk, but time is always a thread of moments. Sometimes moments feel meaningful, and sometimes moments feel mundane. I have recently taken time to reflect on my childhood in order to pinpoint the moments that have significantly shaped me. I …
Why do we make everything so complicated? A few weeks ago, I was planning a project for work and had a moment of panic. “How in the world am I going to pull this campaign together in time AND have measurable success?!?” Positivity is one of my top strengths, so I was surprised by the …
“Well. That’s a sad story.” That’s what my pastor said. The rape and resulting pregnancy. A sad story. He stood in front of me for a moment in awkward silence before turning on his heel and walking away. I don’t know what I expected. Or what I even wanted, to be honest. But “that’s a …
The light of a child after the darkness of trauma is a large first stepping stone on our path to healing. To wholeness.
