A Full Blown Tween…it’s not as bad as you think!!

I mean, really…isn’t it lovely to know a person from his very first breath and watch him become a confident young man right before your very eyes???

Ordinary work for the Kingdom…

I don’t need recognition or praise from the World…because He says I am enough.

Drown Out All the Noise…

So many opinions and studies and best practices and guidelines and anecdotal evidence and studies and celebrity endorsements…everywhere we turn we are inundated with how to do life RIGHT!!!

Let’s Do This Messy Hard Life Together…

We are all doing the very best we can with what we have and the only way we know how.

This is the way…walk in it

Have I been listening? Have I been following Him?? Or have I been going along in my OWN direction??

I’m getting rid of ‘Everything Happens For a Reason’…because In This Life Everything Happens

We all have pain, don’t we? Sadness and loss and failure and struggle and tragedy. Pain is universal and, at some point or another, it happens to all of us. But I’m done believing the universal pain of life is inflicted like a lightning bolt from God for a ‘reason’ and God is somehow teaching me a lesson.

Take Off Your Coat and Stay a While…

I noticed how the people with the most painful stories sometimes had the most serene smiles on their faces and how they leapt to help the next person in line.

Raising big kids is GOOD too…

There will come a day when you see YOU again. Outside of motherhood (I know how easy it is to get lost in there). Someone with interests and talents and passion and relationships. And, oh my goodness, you will really LIKE her!!

Little Hidden Surprises…

For me, writing is like a gift all wrapped up in a beautiful little box and tied with a gigantic frilly bow that I’ve been waiting to unwrap my entire life.

Let’s Re-write the Fairytale Ending…

If I’m hoping my kids will achieve the fairytale I think I’m selling them short because this is an invented and impossible standard.