Truth. Love. Joy.
This past weekend, my husband took our 6 year old daughter Gracie on a trip to see family in California. Living in MN, a trip to CA in the middle of February is much to be excited about! Add to that she was visiting a same age cousin who was celebrating a birthday by having
Single Mom. It’s a label I never intended to wear. But there it was branded on my chest like the scarlet letter. Some parents were hesitant to have their children play at my home. I couldn’t find a class at church I fit into. It was difficult to find friends my age. I was Single…and
(If you received this post via email, be sure to click here to watch the video.) I’m on week 3 unpacking L O V E through 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Week 1: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” Week 2: “It is not rude,
This quote has been a sort of a “mantra” for me over the last few years. If you get to know me even a little bit, you know that one of my chief goals in life is to enjoy every single moment to the best of my ability. I long to find the marvelous in
I don’t know about you, but life can catch me off guard. One day everything can be great, the sun is shining, the world is right, relationships are good and then — bam. A reality check. A situation handled just a bit wrong. What follows? Hurt feelings. Poor choices. Spirits crushed. There are many different
HALT = Hungry — Angry — Lonely — Tired When I am feeling irritable, as I do right now, I think of the above analogy a friend shared with me. When even one of these feelings is out-of-balance… …I feel vulnerable. Balance is difficult, especially for me right now; as a single mom of three,
I spoke at our church’s marriage retreat last year. My topic: Personalities in Marriage… …I know about this all too well. You know the saying, “Opposites attract.” I totally agree with that statement. However, I can also add, “Opposites attack.” Yes, there is only a slight difference in the words attract and attack, but a
I’m talking about LOVE…what it IS and what it is NOT. Last week, I started to unpack 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 starting with, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” If you missed that, you can click here to check it out. This week? Oh
I found my favorite quote in the footnotes of one of my favorite books, Your God is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan. {Yes. I read footnotes. I am a Class A nerd.} I remember the feeling I had when I read those words more than a decade ago. I thought, “That’s me. There’s someone