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A Girl in the Middle.

I teach & encourage Christian women to find God's will & live joyfully through seasons of disappointment in life and marriage.

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The Twins: Grace and Truth

Click here for AUDIO & PODCAST Version My girlfriend called me soon after leaving her obstetrician’s  office. Maybe she had a lot more to say, but in the moment  all I heard was, twins. My response echoed every other one she’d heard the previous couple of hours, “Are you serious?”   Twins, in every way...

But God is Light

Jan 6 My feet dug into the Gulf of Mexico’s white powdery sand as my husband and sat hand in hand  waiting  for the sunset. Total contentment.  I’m a lover of the beach, of my husband and the Lord, and this moment was a little piece of heaven on earth.  We talked about nothing and...

Fear & Peace, Peace & Fear

My creative, humorous, fifth grade student was the daughter of two blind parents who had just brought in an unsuspecting  Aunt to help. Taking advantage of a sighted person to share her life with she wasted no time. When dinner came around, it was the aunt who reached into the freezer for ice cubes. The...

Curls. Control. Conciliation.

Jan 4 I can remember Mom shaping my curly, damp hair around her finger one section at a time.  Most  of my life I struggled with the all or nothing trait. Longfellow must have had me in mind. There was a little girl BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There was a little girl,             Who had a little...

Angry?

Jan 3 No cursing or name calling involved, but  as each next word rolled off my tongue in defense of my injustice I felt worse and worse.  Outpouring from my  heart I heard the sting of my own voice:  bitterness and anger  were talking.  And it wasn’t even directed at me, I’m the innocent one-...

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He calmed the storm to a

whisper, and the waves of the

sea were hushed.

Psalm 107:29

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