Helping you connect your faith with your real life
I stared at her knowing the words before she even spoke them. She was talking about me and how people perceive me. Thinking the words would hurt less, I spoke them before she could. “Everyone thinks I have it all together.” She nodded quickly, too quickly, and the silence felt like a dense fog between us.
Standing at the stove, stirring spaghetti I wanted to cry. My son needed help with his homework, my daughter was reading me a book for school and the phone started ringing. I stopped to answer the phone and in those two minutes the water boiled over, my son was banging the table and my daughter
The day was bad. There wasn’t one thing I could pinpoint. There were fifteen things that left me feeling like I had been splayed with a shotgun. A single bullet would have felt easier than these wounds that left me looking like swiss cheese. Things were bad and I let everyone around me know it.
Life sometimes takes unexpected turns. Navigating those turns well can make all the difference. I never thought I’d be a stay at home mom. I went to school and got a few degrees because I wanted to work; I wanted to change the world. I was the kid that wrote a book about being the
I glanced at the calendar hanging on the wall and I wanted to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head. The day and the week and the month were full of everyone’s things. Sports, meetings, school events, dinners, holidays…all good things. But if they’re so good then why do they make
Have you ever taken one of those online or magazine surveys? The ones where you circle or click where you fall on a scale of 0-10 to learn about who you are? I looked at the list of survey questions in front of me. It was a survey about life, something rather generic. But I
I’ve always loved the routine of school. There’s rules and structure and opportunity to learn. But sometimes all that structure can feel like a lot to juggle. September is always hard here. The transition from summer fun to schedules can be tough. Add to it a handful of orientations, parent nights, and school supply lists
Our summer of favorite things wouldn’t be complete without talking movies and TV shows. These recent favorites include family and grown up shows to entertain from new releases to Netflix and Hulu favorites. While this isn’t a super spiritual post, it is the kind of thing I chat with my friends about (and that means
Summer is the great playtime of the year. It’s like recess; a break from the responsibilities. Except when it’s not. I find myself holding this idea that summer should be FANTASTIC and FUN and SUN. But there’s still laundry and cooking and vacuuming. The bills keep coming and the everyday-ness of life still happens. How
I’ve always thought that the place I am has more to do with who I’m with and why I’m there than the actual location. Everyplace that has mattered in my life has been about the who and why. Here are some of my favorite places: My Bed Seriously, I love being in my bed. Sleep
