Several years ago, I wrestled through being at a church I wanted to love, but struggled to be at. My husband was pretty content and happy with it and I was not. I didn’t appreciate his…
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What do you write about when you are free falling from a wonderful weekend? Wednesday arrived and writing has been the last thing on my mind. For the first time in exactly a year, all four of…
Last week I was challenged to be less guarded in my writing. “We want to know more about you!” Some days I wonder what people really know about me. I fall into the private category when it…
As we embark on our journey this New Year, many of us map out plans to attain new goals, achieve desired tasks and improve areas in their life. We feel it is a fresh start to accomplish what…
Why do we find it so difficult, at times, to know how to do the right thing or even what the right thing is? We wrestle and worry about the choice before us, as if we don’t have…
Airplane tickets, rental car and a hotel, all to surprise a niece who needed some love. That’s family. Sixteen people surrounding a table filled with taco fixings again on a Saturday night. That’s family. Huddled around a medical bed…
The season of gratitude is just around the corner. Despite our desire to practice thankfulness everyday, we tend to focus in during the month of November, as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends. What if we…
Seasons of marriage ebb and flow. I am not sure if you are like me, but I can only really remember dreaming about one specific season…married with kids. For as long as I can remember, my thoughts of being…
During our lifetime, we will experience loss. A season of loss can take on many forms and faces. Loss is simply being deprived of something or someone. This deprivation can cause us to respond in many ways emotionally: with anger,…