Sometimes life is hard. Pain comes. Grief, betrayal, suffering, and sickness are all a part of living in today's world. Sometimes putting on a brave face and moving forward is the last thing that we want to do. When my boys were young, I left my job at a Fortune 2 company to stay home with them. I left a high paid consultancy, my suits, stimulating adult conversations and corporate lunches behind for diaper changes, snotty noses, endless food prep, and messes. Transitioning from full-time employment outside of the house to being home full-time with babies and toddlers is hard. And because I am a glutton for punishment, shortly after returning home, I decided to homeschool my boys. In the best of circumstances, homeschooling is hard. Flash forward, and I had three boys: one in Continue Reading
We are Made to Brave the Unknown
I never read a novel from front to back. I usually skim the ending first, and then, as I’m going along in the book, I often flip to later chapters so I can see how the situation I’m currently reading about is going to turn out. This drives my loved ones crazy, but I just want to know what to expect. Good or bad, I like to know how things are going to turn out. For me, it’s always been less about a need to control and more about a fear of the unknown. And it goes way back, this tendency. When I was growing up, my older brothers called me “Worry Wart.” Years ago, when I asked my dad what I was like as a child, he simply said, “You were always very fearful.” Thankfully, what once was doesn’t always indicate what is now—or what will be in the future. When God sets out to break a Continue Reading
Reclaiming the Message We Were Always Meant to Embrace
How long since you’ve lived life unplanned? Do you find yourself bogged down in self-sufficiency, driven by fear and the need to control? When was the last time you allowed yourself the joy of embracing a single moment, with expectation and excitement? What if the one message your heart needs to hear could bring renewal today? The kind of renewal that infuses life into all of our topsy-turvy, unpredictable days and leaves us breathless to the wonder of such grace...that's the message I need today, and I'm guessing you do too. Because like you, my heart is in desperate need of hope, and I long to sit on my Father's lap and let him remind me of the life He has created for me to live. I yearn to hear Him tell me it's Ok to let go, that He's got this, and He's got me. That's Continue Reading
7 Sweet Reminders for How to Forgive
Can I be honest with you? I’m not that great at knowing how to forgive! It's just not very easy sometimes, when all the pain and hurt wells up inside and spills over all ugly. When we come face to face with the shame and regret and anger, and it flows straight from our heart and out of our mouth with the force of a spewing geyser. And then it’s too late. It’s too late to take it all back and tuck it away nicely and pretend it never happened. Because the debris of what's left behind from our suffering now lies is someone else's life. And the regret hangs heavy . We find ourselves thrust into the dark space of unresolved and unintended. Too many triggers to be covered in compassion. Too many offenses to bow in the presence of mercy. a broken heart~ a betrayal of Continue Reading