It's difficult to gain perspective when we are in the middle of the biggest upset to daily life any of us can remember. If it had only lasted a few weeks, we'd be back to normal. But we're not. We are nearly a year into this thing called a pandemic, and my flexibility (word of the year) and patience ...
How to Be Grateful When You Don’t Feel Like It
I have to admit, I have a love-hate relationship with gratitude. Partly because of my religious upbringing, and partly because I struggle with taking on too much. When I hear the command, "Be grateful," I sometimes feel resentment or even anger creeping up in me. The question is, "how to do be ...
Staying Focused on What Matters Most
Throughout most of my adult life, I’ve struggled to set good boundaries. Raised in a religious group that subjugated my own sense of self, I failed to learn normal boundaries as many other well-adjusted adults seem to have learned naturally. ...
3 Steps to Honor God’s Vision in Our Lives
Often in our Christian walk, we catch a glimpse of a vision that gives us hope that we can impact others in some meaningful way. In the moment, we rarely have a clue how our vision will ever come to be. This vision eventually becomes our reality as we aim to accomplish it; it becomes a piece of our ...
The End of Elementary School
It's often said that parents try to live vicariously through their children. Our own dashed hopes and dreams can be relived and recreated anew through our offspring. This, as we know, often backfires. In my case, I hadn't given much thought to my personal negative experiences with elementary school ...
Leaving Christian Science [book launch]
Today my first book, Leaving Christian Science: 10 Stories of New Faith in Jesus Christ, releases. It's almost like I've been in labor for months and the baby has just been born! Thank you so much for your support, friendship, and love. I appreciate having the freedom of speech to write such a book ...