“I’m not dead yet!” This cry should be familiar to those around my age and recognized as a popular Monty Python line. It makes me snicker as I think about how I feel as I enter the latter part of my days. The future is not dim, as I feel more alive than ever. Rather,…
Rest, peace, stillness…our soul craves these things like we crave air after being under the water for more than a few seconds. Yet, it seems as if we ignore these cravings more and more. If I’m honest with myself, I don’t know how to be still. I think I do. However, when I set out…
Be strong and courageous? What does that mean?! I can feel brave and courageous when I’m all by myself, but the instant a challenge comes at me, I slump in fear. Where do I find my brave? At this moment, I find the goodness of God to be all-consuming. I use this terminology not in…
My heart dropped not only into my gut, but it burned a hole in the bottom of it. The woman on the other side of the table, who was trying to be helpful, had no idea that the words she spoke were excruciating to me at a bad time in my life, not to mention,…
All of us were created to love and be loved. Yet too often we complicate what it looks like to live out love. Love is simple – yet incredibly hard. Below I want to list a few simple ways to live out love in our daily lives. Live Out Love These are just a few…
As I write this, I’m struggling with the Art of Letting Go…again.
I’m not sure if it’s still true today, but those little meals you carried to school were more than just nourishment, they were a status symbol. We judged each other not only on the contents but the method in which you carried it
We chose to walk through the pain with our kids and teach them how to grow from difficulty
Guest Post by Kim Briggs
May all the broken pieces of our lives, the spilled bottles of paint, pencil shavings and dried-up markers, broken and forgotten crayons and the smashed pieces of chalk be crafted into the masterpiece our families will read in future generations.
