Sometimes life throws us a battle or a fork-in-the-road. The kind that comes unexpectedly banging and clanging into our life with such intensity, we find ourselves losing balance and perspective. The kind that threatens to throw our mind and heart into a tailspin and gives us no choice but to follow. And sometimes it's the kind that echoes muffled questions in the back of our mind. Questions that make us doubt our value and our purpose...and our future. At a time when we need to be thinking and planning for so many other important things, we find ourselves caught up in a battle we would have never chosen for ourselves. Because we don't like to be bothered by forks in the road. We don't like to be burdened with battles. And really, who does? But still, they come. Forks in Continue Reading
When We Need Reminded: Change is Good
Her car is packed to the roof-boxes, bags, endless shoes and every comfort a young woman needs to navigate college life in style. Weeks of shopping and preparations culminate to this very moment bursting with adventure and change. She is the last, her way paved by two older brothers who thunderously charged into their future. Hers is the road of quiet reflection and measured action, my “one liner” child with an unexpected humor that explodes laughter with every spontaneous delivery. She doesn’t fit the world’s cookie cutter mold, and her path has not been an easy one. Accepting pieces of life she could not change and plowing through obstacles relentless to bear claim on a young woman’s heart in search of her own significance. The depth of her inner beauty penetrates Continue Reading