Raising kids. Keeping House. Choosing joy, every day.
As I watch the news, I’m once again, surprised by the brokenness of this world. I see rioters breaking businesses and glass and bodies, and harming neighborhoods and the real lives of normal people who are just trying to do the best they can, and …
Have you ever been shocked by life’s turn of events? I’ve had several defining moments when life seemed to spiral out of control, like the day my baby sister told me that her ultrasound showed that her baby had severe disabilities and was not expected …
We don’t need Valentine’s Day to show us how needy and clingy we can be. All we need is a day when we feel lonely, overlooked, pushed aside, or under appreciated, and the inner rumblings of our hearts and mind reveal that we’re looking for …
Thank you so much for praying for my niece, Addy. Her latest update is here and now all we can do is pray and wait and see if her spine straightens enough for the second surgery. Waiting has been on my mind lately since we’ve …
Today, I simply want to ask you to pray for my sister, Hannah, and her daughter, Addy. If you’ve read here at all, you know a little bit about Addy’s journey. With all of her difficulties, she is one of the happiest, funniest kids I …
I tend to want my own way, but God tends to do things differently. If I had it my way, my kids would be perfect, my money would never run out, our house would self-clean, the people in our life would be perfectly kind, considerate, …
There is an amazing peace that fills you when you love the Lord first and foremost. And conversely, there is unrest and inner turmoil when you don’t. This week has been a strange one. We started with a wonderful Memorial Day celebration on Monday, followed by …
We all want to age gracefully, but that doesn’t just happen. In fact, in a decades time, we can go from sweet to bitter or vice versa. And although beauty is only skin deep, bitterness of soul goes straight to the bone and can poison …
Today is one of those days where I woke up feeling fully blessed. We had a wonderful weekend full of blessing and answered prayer, and received good news from our daughter in college about some upcoming opportunities the Lord has given her. But I don’t …
Have you ever had the feeling that life is not fulfilling? Are you ever unsatisfied with life as you know it? My little girl encountered this on a very small-scale one day when I went announced that we were going to the Dairy Queen. …