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What are your fears? Here’s just a few of mine – harm coming to a love one, rejection, debilitating illness, financial ruin, indecent exposure (by me), and failure. Also, spiders, snakes, frogs, lizards and most bugs – lady bugs are okay I guess. Fear is […]
Have you ever wanted to find out the secret to parenting? I sure wish I knew it. I’d slap a patent on it for sure. We are always looking for a silver bullet, aren’t we? Most times there isn’t one. So what about parenting? What […]
Earlier this week, I posted that my superhero character is likely Anxiety Girl. Another option would be Worry Woman. I have certainly spent (or should I say wasted) my fair share of my life worrying about everything including finances, my children, my appearance, my job, […]
“and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.” Ephesians 5:27 When my step-daughter has a zit (blemish), she calls it a “Helga”. We send each other pictures of our “Helga’s”. Kind […]
Have you noticed that being busy is seen as a badge of honor in our culture? And we sometimes even see it as a sign of importance. My husband and I have four kids between us, and I worked full-time outside the home. Boy, do […]
I saw the following quote on social media: “Be with someone who will take care of you. Not materialistically but take care of your soul, your well-being, your heart and everything that’s you.” I was lucky enough to find and marry that person the second […]
How did you imagine your life? Has it turned out differently than you expected? I feel sure that, for pretty much all of us, life hasn’t been exactly as we planned it. Mine certainly hasn’t been. But I know that it’s not my plan that […]
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:13-14 Body image is an issue that almost everybody deals with […]
“O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.” Psalm 139:1-3 It […]
Does anyone else feel like they have a crazy mind? Mine is constantly going and often to places where it isn’t necessarily healthy for it to go. My husband and I were hiking one day and I asked him what he was thinking about. He […]
