Blog Posts – Page 7 – Christy Wilkens

Better than we know ourselves

I have felt, rather helplessly, this inner desire to find God’s call for my life and do it. I devoured these books because I found it so fascinating to listen to other people’s stories on radically following God’s call.

The beard and the veil

Over the Christmas vacation, my dearest friends from college dropped in for a visit with their family. Most of the conversation revolved around faith — what weightier questions are there? At some lull in the conversation, my friend asked why Todd had grown a beard…

The faith of a child

“Mama, is Oscar still sick?” my five year old casually asks one day.

We are in the middle of a rousing game of Zingo, and I have just successfully defused a tense argument about who gets the “star” chip…

The storm before the calm

I am not sure what the heck this is supposed to be. The tagline I chose was “a spiritual memoir of special needs parenting.” But “memoir” implies memories implies the past, finished and done.