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It’s not really crippling for me, but I can see how it could be. Anxiety. I do struggle sometimes with feeling overwhelmed, out of control and over-worked. My mind races, which I hate. And I feel like the world is closing in on me. Suffocating me. In more recent years I have discovered that if…
I hate parenting. I know. You’re all thinking it though. You hate it too. Why does it have to be so hard? When I first learned I was pregnant with my first child, I fell to my knees and cried. I was only 24. I wasn’t ready for a baby! I was so wrong. Sleepless…
I wish someone would have told me that disappointments were a part of life. No one ever pulls you aside to tell you to prepare for failure. No. People always set you up for the win. They set you up to succeed and to get the little trophies at the end of the game. Is…
Plan B. It’s not usually what we wish for. Plan B is the plan we go to when what we really wanted falls through. Plan B is settling for something less. Plan B is second best. Leftovers. Plan B means that something went wrong. One of my favorite quotes is “God laughs when you make…
They say that bad luck comes in threes. I am unsure why they say that or who they are, but ok. If that’s true then I am done. Busted hot water heater. One. Leaking sunroof. Two. Vehicle dead in the middle of the road. Three. All in less than two weeks, so if we’re sticking…
Simplicity. I’ve always believed that less is more. Fewer activities. Smaller houses. Closer friends. So, why is it a surprise then, when God shows up in the most humble ways? Lately I have been amazed at how God has been responding to me. And if you are in a place where you feel like God…
I write a lot about seasons and how I love Summer so much I could probably squeeze it to death. And with the end of my children’s Summer break coming to an abrupt end next week, I’ve been clinging to it with white knuckles. But, I also know that all seasons serve their unique purpose….
I’ve spent the last few months in prison and now that I have finally escaped, I never want to go back. Maybe prison is too strong of a word. Occupied? That might be bit better. That’s a bit more dignified. Whatever the appropriate word, the truth is that I have been under siege. The last…
It wasn’t a bad day. The travel was easy through 240 miles of roundtrip rain. Traffic was light. Lunch was even indulgent and the conversation was spirited. I am just very impatient. I want things my way most of the time. I want things when I think they should be done. I don’t like to…
I had such a busy day sprawled out ahead of me. Staff meetings. Orthodontist appointments. Rehearsal. Dance class. And the little thing we like to call ‘work’ was mixed in the middle of it all. Praise God for whoever invented the crock pot. I rushed out of my staff meeting early to pick my teenager…