Sharing Hearts and Faith: author Julie Kloster, from Sycamore, IL blog

Mothers and Missionaries

Taylor was born at one pound and thirteen ounces. Full respirator 100% oxygen Septicemia from the amniotic sac being broken for three...

I was challenged today to consider: What are my most treasured memories? What I discovered was . . . they were life’s simple pleasures –...

This is an official apology to parents of young children. I have forgotten. I am an almost empty nester but not yet a grandparent. ...

January 1. This is the time of year that we dwell in nostalgia and ponder the future. We set goals and dream dreams. Sometimes we mourn....

Though I walk through the valley of death . . . I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. So many of my dear ones crossed to glory's...

What was nine-year-old Jamie doing on March 16, 1991? Maybe that was the day he swam against Michael Phelps and won because he just felt...

My friend, Miss Mary, turns in her RSVP early. She told me in July, “I am coming to your house for Christmas again this year!” We...

I was doing so well. Every day this month I had told myself, “Don’t think about Chelsey leaving. She is here today. Just enjoy today....

Christmas music was playing and snow was falling softly outside the kitchen window; it was a perfect day to bake Christmas cookies. I...

God gave me an oasis to refresh and rest from the desert I had walked for several months. I had been weary . . . so weary. The traumas of...