A blanket of sadness has covered our family this year. Our village. Our world. And when sadness comes I want to run. But this, what has happened recently,could break me. I know this. I am fully aware that this
The loneliest marriage- when the sin of making your children happy has stolen the gift of your covenant. .
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Psalm 25:16 It’s not anything to be proud of. If anything its embarrassing. To sit before your best friend with tears and say you have never been
Dear girls, I am sorry I should have told you what beautiful is.
Dear girls, I am sorry. I am sorry for not telling you. For not telling you that today you are beautiful. I am sorry for not reminding you that when the jeans don’t fit. You are beautiful. When you are
I’ve looked suicide in the face. And other secrets of the good church girl.
. This post was originally posted September 2013. I have been asked recently to tell part of my story again If for the only reason for one person to know they are not alone. You see when we start live in
I didn’t come to Jesus from your Facebook posts.
I have a hard time with Facebook occasionally. Don’t get me wrong I love to post selfies of a new haircut, Instagram my kids being kids, or take an occasional test to see what Downton Abbey character I would be
Like tar around my bones.
I remember thinking this is it. These are my last sane moments. The darkness wrapped like tar around my bones. I couldn’t breathe much less complete a sane thought. I would check my phone seeing if anyone had called me.
25 days of love- feedback time
Merry Christmas! We did it. 25 days of love was quite an adventure. Days when we thought we knew what love would look like it turned our worlds upside down within moments. After lots of cookies, gift cards, tears and
flowers,firefighters and gooey butter cake
I don’t even know where to begin. This afternoon as I was cleaning up vomit once again the doorbell rang. The sweet delivery girl had no idea that I would end up a crying mess as she handed me a
day 15–hot cocoa love.
Well…sometimes things don’t go as planned, especially when it comes to loving people. Today was one of those days. The challenge for today was to bring hot cocoa to the Salvation Army bell ringer. Apparently they do not ring the
25 days of love…..so put away that elf…..
We don’t do Santa. We used to so don’t be a hater and hear me out. We used to stand in line with our crying toddler and make her sit on a large bearded strangers lap. We used pay through