Dearest Daughters
Cultivating Love
Love is the most important thing in a marriage. In fact, we might even say that love is the marriage.
Amanda Lancaster
Do Not Despise the Places Where You Lack
Marriage is not a place for us as human beings to shine—it’s a place for God to shine. Scripture tells us, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9).
Dearest Daughters
Motherhood—An Art of Balance and Proprioception
As I shared in my previous letter, the role of a wife and mother is meant to be a dance—a dance to the rhythm and music of our Maker. But to dance well, a woman must have extraordinary balance and proprioception.
Dearest Daughters
To Bow and to Bend, We Shan’t Be Ashamed
Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground. Psalm 143:10 Dearest Daughters, I often think of the calling of womanhood—of being a wife, a mother, a servant of Christ—as being something like the role of
Dearest Daughters
That You May Dance
In the morning, LORD, You hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before You and wait expectantly. —Psalm 5:3 Dearest Daughters, I want to write to you now—before some of you set out on the journey of marriage, and as others grow in the grace
Unto the Least of These
She never married—but became family to hundreds. Children, parents, grandparents—all drawn by her love. Aunt Maresy didn’t build a legacy through lineage, but through presence. Her life proves: God sets the lonely in families—and makes them overflow.
Finding Family in Africa
We arrived in the Netherlands yesterday after a week in South Africa, my first visit to the community there. What an eye-opening and wonderful visit we had! South Africa is truly beautiful, but not in an ostentatious way. There’s something very earthy and familiar about it. I felt as