When I brought my newborn home from the hospital, I was overcome with the realization that this baby depended on me for everything. During those first months as a new mom, I learned what sacrificial love looked like in action. Babies and young children have many needs and must fully depend on the loving adults […]
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At the age of 18, I had a solid five-year plan. I was going to graduate from a Christian college with a degree to teach deaf/hard-of-hearing students, and I was going to do it within an undergraduate program. Never mind that there was only one college in all my searching that met my criteria, and […]
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Our sphere of control is comically small: this is what we all learned in the early months of the pandemic. As we bumped up into our new reality—not knowing how long quarantine would last, being unable to make plans for the future, feeling the stress of uncertainty every day—we faced our own extreme limitations. During […]
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Sarah K. Butterfield 