by krista | Aug 12, 2018 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Yesterday, at the grocery store, I stood in line in front of a family with two young kids. As the mom unloaded the cart, the dad scooped up the baby. I watched as, within ten seconds, the baby laid his head on his dad’s chest and fell asleep. Ten seconds! Maybe...
by krista | Aug 5, 2018 | Christ life, Uncategorized, Writing
Jesus is everywhere. And I don’t just mean literally. (Although, as the second member of the Trinity, Jesus is, in fact, everywhere.) I’m speaking metaphorically. Think of pretty much every super hero movie: There’s a problem that humanity...
by krista | Aug 1, 2018 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
John Piper argues that “wimpy theology makes wimpy women.” We get “wimpy theology” by choosing to let others tell us who God is rather than getting to know him for ourselves through his revelation to us, the Bible. We listen to songs about God, read books about God,...
by krista | Jul 23, 2018 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Several years ago, my friend Amy told me about a book she read that discussed how parents celebrate the “firsts”, but often miss the “lasts”. Usually it’s because we don’t know when those “lasts” will be…the last time we read a book to our child in bed, the last lost...
by krista | Jul 19, 2018 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Naming a child is difficult – this kid has to live with his name the rest of his life! That’s a lot of pressure. When it came time to name our son, my husband and I could not agree. I liked Philip and Lewis. He liked David, Jr. and Zachary. We kept...
by krista | Jul 10, 2018 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the ANOMALY trilogy and the fourth anniversary of its finale. So I am feeling a little nostalgic. When my publisher first talked to me about writing a dystopian series, I was nervous — I wrote fun,...
