With each passing year, I appreciate my marriage to my husband more and more. In talking with my writing friends, we began talking about the joys of "everyday" normal life (after Covid). When the world is shaken and everything turns topsy turvy, taking stock of the regular, everyday, run-of-the-mill ...
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Motherhood, Ministry, and My Minivan
If you told me I’d be a minivan-driving mama of four when I first got married, I wouldn’t have believed you. I had no idea what lay ahead, and how my faith, becoming a mom, and driving a minivan would shape me. ...
Storm Clouds and Silver Linings {Sorrow Adjacent to Blessings}
I sat in the passenger seat of our rental car looking out the window as we made our way out of the mountains to the airport. "I don’t want to talk. I just want to listen to the radio and think,” I told my husband. I was emotionally triggered and couldn't quite find my way out of that place in ...
10 Bible Verses About Trauma
It's hard to have trauma in your past that continually causes you pain, whether you've been through emotional trauma, physical trauma, or complex trauma. I've written about my own journey of experiencing trauma and finding the blessings within trials. It's no picnic, and sometimes I find myself ...
10 Bible Verses to Ignite Your Morning
I have to admit, I have a love-hate relationship with mornings. On one hand, I love the freshness of beginning a day anew. There's a sense of hope and redemption I smell along with my morning coffee that wipes away the disappointments of yesterday. On the other, I struggle with insomnia and rarely ...
5 Things You Can’t Rush
We live in a microwave, Wi-Fi hotspot culture. We want it now; we want it fast; we want it yesterday. Thanks to many technological advances like the Internet, smartphones, Netflix, and yes, even the microwave from the 80s, most everyone, including me, has lost patience for the process of many ...