Different than expected
Did you ever think that you would be where you are right now? Are your circumstances what you expected them to be? Your marriage? Your children? Your career? Or is your life different than expected? When I was a Junior in high school, the associate pastor from our...
New Beginnings
New beginnings offer us hope. They birth new goals, excitement, and passion. Yet sometimes, new beginnings come about because we recognize we are living outside our limits and we have lost sight of our boundaries. With little sleep, a mountain of dirty laundry,...
Let the fun begin!
My friend Melissa took pictures of my family, and I stroke a pose. This might be the only appropriate time to share this picture – let the fun begin! I am purposefully pursuing my writing career, and this is where I will be doing much of my writing. I’m so...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.