by Emily P Freeman | Jun 4, 2012 | faith, family
“Jesus defined lust as taking place not primarily in dark alleys but in dark imaginations. Greed happens not when I make off with my neighbor’s goods but when I imagine that they are mine. The author of sin in this world knows all too well the power of the...
by Emily P Freeman | May 29, 2012 | family, Grace for the Good Girl
She is our first-born (by three minutes) and we put Grace in her name, right in the middle. It’s a word I spent many years circling around with eyes narrowed and arms crossed, a word I thought I understood. But that was back when I knew everything. Those early...
by Emily P Freeman | Sep 6, 2011 | breathe, family
He asked me, What would be life-giving to you today? And it didn’t really matter what I said after that, because the question itself breathed life into me. But I answered anyway, and we packed up the kids and headed to the big park across town. September smiled...
by Emily P Freeman | Aug 26, 2011 | breathe, family
As our coast prepares for a hurricane, my heart is recovering from one this morning. We have a girl who is … reluctant to go to school. I wish it could always just be easy, but easy doesn’t push us into Jesus. And so we pray and we wait to watch the...
by Emily P Freeman | May 31, 2011 | Compassion Philippines, family
This isn’t where we visited today. We weren’t allowed to get our cameras out while on the street, so this is a photo I took from the bus of a neighborhood nearby. These homes here are much nicer than the ones we saw today. This is Rose Ann. We saw her home...
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