When God asks you to lay it aside …

Last year I heard a whisper of a thought, interrupting the shallows of my beachside vacation: will you let your vision die?

Vision is a word with weight in my world. I have breathed “vision”.

During the majority of eight childless-but-married years, Nate and I took parenting classes, read books, and sat in the kitchens of multiple families, peppering pare…