Anchor Lines

'Regular' parenting was one of the most challenging things I have ever tried to do. Single parenting is even more so - and I say that as someone who feels extremely well supported by my family, church family and friends - many single parents have much less to go on, and I have huge respect for the responsibility and trials of raising children without a partner. It's often thankless - at least in the moment. It exposes the worst in you, it's exhausting, infuriating, you don't have someone to tag in for you, or to ask 'was that ok?' when…

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in  me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you…

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going. Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the…