No, life is not like what I had hoped it would look like, but we're still doing what we can to invest in our boys. In the dark, in the heat, and long past bedtime, we're convicted to raise them to be godly men in men's bodies. This is just one, short glimpse of that.

Ralph and I come from divorced families. Ralph's parents separated when he was in elementary school, mine when I was fifteen, and again within the first year of our marriage. The emotional pain is hard to describe. The impact those divorces have made on us still to this day....The broken pieces we have had to pick up for each other...

Since I was a very little girl, singing for Jesus has brought me to life more than anything else. For most of my adult years, I would be so intensely nervous that I would ask myself why I allowed myself to be put in this position.

I say this constantly. It hasn't changed. Parenting is the hardest thing I've done and I do not believe anything will top it.