Check out my Website Launch Party Scavenger Hunt! How? Read on…
Check out my Website Launch Party Scavenger Hunt! How? Read on…
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From Surviving To Living:
Here’s the greatest truth I can give you right now about loss, building, and beginning again: Sometimes a wall is a door.
We run headlong into a wall that is unforeseen and unforgiving. It hurts like hell. But if we will actually let ourselves hurt, feel it, experience the pain, experience the incapacitation, the injury, lay on the ground for a while, live in the loss instead of trying to spring into frantic action, and prove we’re fine . . .we just might find that the wall was actually a door after all.
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The Magic of Dusk: Finding Inspiration in a Thousand Painted Skies
The author cherishes the sacred space of their deck for soulful conversations amidst nature’s backdrop. They compare the ever-changing skies to our multifaceted identities, encouraging us to embrace the plurality of our lives and experiences. By sharing our diverse selves, they believe we can enrich our community and personal growth, finding connection and freedom in the exchange of ideas and past experiences on the back porch.
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My Husband’s Sobriety, God is Making All Things New
As my eyes fixed upon the shattered glass at my feet, frozen in the aftermath, I couldn’t fathom how the very glass I had unloaded gracefully from the dishwasher had chosen this dramatic path and sent my heart thundering. In the realm of this recovery journey, it’s akin to a delicate dance, a constant expectation,…
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Navigating Sobriety with Transparency: Supporting my Husband and Embracing Healing
This season has proven more challenging than I could have imagined. To be completely honest, the last month went beyond physical exhaustion; my soul was weary, and the sense of falling short and shame weighed heavily on me. Years of seclusion, keeping a carefully crafted happy family image of life unraveled abruptly when my husband’s…
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God Meets You In The Middle
In the solitude of early mornings, a woman grapples with the irony of her and her husband’s sudden health crises. As they confront the “messy middle” of life, she finds solace in her faith. The bible’s assurances provide comfort, promising rejuvenation amidst her reflections on life’s unpredictable trials and the relentless passage of time. She realizes the importance of each moment and the presence of God even in hardship, encouraging her to breathe and find hope in continuing her story.
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Why I Talk To My Kids About Suicide
Black ink swirled on my arm as the tattoo gun engraved “Warr;or” into my skin. I’m weird like that. I get tattoos to commemorate moments. Ink is my thing because it marks me for life. Later, I posted a photo of my daughter and I soaking in the sun with my new tattoo on display….
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The Sacred Work of Tearing and Mending
Maybe if we still tore our clothes today, people would understand the grief we’re experiencing, I think to myself as I end another Zoom meeting with one of my children’s teachers. Maybe then they would understand we are still sad, we are still grappling in the dark for normal, we are still grieving. I’m sure we…
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Feeling out of rhythm in your marriage? Try this.
In need of a workout routine, I quickly found out our new town of less than 3,000 did not have a gym. But what I did find was Jazzercise. It’s one of those workouts filled with friends, loud music, strength training, dance, and Pilates. If a girl had to sweat it out to say in…
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How to Undo the Hustle and See What’s Holy
It was a hot Saturday in 2017, and I was at the city dump surveying a massive pile of lumber that my friend was about to climb. Cindy knew better than to leave me home alone with my despair. I had just been let go from a job that was my everything. “My life is…
