It's a sobering thing to realize what lies between us and our "somedays" are often silent little thieves. They create doubt and make us question our abilities, our worth and the validity of our hopes and dreams. They steal our confidence and our ambition. And they leave us feeling defeated before we take a single step toward the someday that always finds its way in the forefront of our mind. Sure, life gets busy. We're all stretched thin. There are a plethora of distractions, all vying for urgency in our days. Yet it's the somedays our heart craves. It's the somedays our spirit longs to revive. In every life, it's the somedays that bring fresh hope to the parched places of our soul. Perhaps deciding to assign urgency to even one is the first step to getting our Continue Reading
Hope Always Emerges Beyond the Storm
No matter how overwhelming the storm, there is always HOPE. This is the message I have repeatedly tucked in my heart this week, again and again. Sometimes our storms put our someday's on hold. In this case, I've had to put my September Somedays Series on hold in order to prepare my family and my home for hurricane Irma. I wrote this post a year ago, in the midst of Hurricane Matthew, and once again, I find myself directly in the path of a storm powerful enough to destroy in ways I cannot wrap my head around. The pictures of islands already obliterated in its path are overwhelmingly sad. With a home for sale, and offers pending, hurricane Irma poses the threat of losing the fresh start my family has longed for - the fresh someday we've been counting on. Preparing for devastation is Continue Reading
September Somedays Series
It's September, and that means it's the perfect time to begin pulling those "maybe somedays" out of the drawer, dust them off and start moving forward on making them a reality - TODAY. We all have them. Life's possibilities we consider once the kids are back in school. The ones we let peek from beneath our cluttered heart's drawer for just a breath. Long enough to feel our pulse rush and our imagination ignite. For a brief moment, our somedays stir us to believe in more. They warm us and open our mind to more beyond the here and now. And they create space for our dreams to take life. What are your somedays? What will it take to open your heart's drawer and let them breathe? How would it feel to give a place to grow? September is the perfect space for birthing Continue Reading
6 Ways to Defeat Lies & Live in Freedom {Link-Up}
It’s the same old script playing over and over in my head, like the ticker scrolling across the nightly news reel. At least now, I’ve learned to recognize it, and I know where it originates. But I long for the day when the all-too-familiar pain that accompanies the lie dissipates as quickly as it enters my heart. The memory erupted last week, spilling over all ugly and oozing the evidence of a soul infection I thought no longer existed. The kind that spits out so fast, you have to catch your breath and take a minute to process “why this, and why now?” You see, for the past 6 months, I’ve been in the fight of my life. A spiritual fight to silence the lies once and for all. Have you ever been in this place, where life bears down so heavy that you can't hear the truth for Continue Reading