What verses have most helped you understand what the love of God looks like?

On the day after Mother’s Day, when the fun and flowers and watermelon champagne sugar cookies and breakfasts in bed are now an afterglow, and life returns to a more regular, unheralded rhythm of laundry and cutting crust off PB&Js and scheduling doctors appointments and listening to little kids with big feelings, I need to know that ours is a God who sees what is unnoticed.

Today marks one year since I was hospitalized with a pregnancy complication that was life-threatening for both me and Henry.

If there’s anyone on this earth who knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that I’m not God, it’s my sister.