Our family has walked through many seasons of Shaun’s battle with depression & anxiety. The following posts were written while our family was drowning in the nine month agony of Shaun’s last big battle. The posts are in reverse chronological order. I wrote in the midst of the struggle from August 2014-May 2015. May you find you’re not alone with the hard you are carrying.

C. Hope 4/14/15 C. Hope 4/14/15

A Rebellious Harvest

Winter told us the days would stay long and dark and lonely. FOR.EVER. The cold would stay. And everything seen reinforced the message.

C. Hope 2/8/15 C. Hope 2/8/15

Love Lavishly

We always walk away feeling more loved than we brought love to the door.

C. Hope 2/6/15 C. Hope 2/6/15

Practice Love, Not Just the Squishy Kind

It isn't for us to choose between the easy or the hard -- it's for us to love.

C. Hope 2/3/15 C. Hope 2/3/15

Tone of Love

Just when I was thinking I had myself pulled together, the driver greeted me with the most sincere, kind and compassionate voice…

C. Hope 1/11/15 C. Hope 1/11/15

Brick Wall or Open Door

Depending on personality, a person's history or current life circumstances, we find ourselves at varying degrees of openness, all of which are a good place to start!

C. Hope 1/8/15 C. Hope 1/8/15

Wide Open Secrets & Surprises

This month I am on secret mission to drop a different sort of bomb to unleash hope for them to be the best versions of themselves.

C. Hope 1/7/15 C. Hope 1/7/15

Cracked Wide Open

I was craving His getting it -- the being fully known and understood without all the work of making myself known and the disappointing attempts at being understood.

C. Hope 1/6/15 C. Hope 1/6/15

Hope On Purpose | A Practice

A practice, an activity, and a challenge to help us live a life intentionally and effectively.

C. Hope 9/25/14 C. Hope 9/25/14

Practices of the Carefree

While the real world pulls us away from the innocent wonder found in the Neverland of childhood, we don't have to succumb to the crabbiness of Captain Hook and his mates.