Encouraging Women to Live Rooted in the Sacred
Doesn’t really seem like it was that long ago….. I once knew a girl who had a baby boy…a beautiful blond-haired, blue-eyed little one he was. Her heartbeat, she called him. Then two and a half years later, that girl I knew, she had another darling son. This one, olive-skinned with the biggest eyes you’ve ever seen on a baby…
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The blinking cursor on the facebook screen asks “What’s on your mind?” I wonder how the status updates would change if people were instead asked: “What’s on your heart?” My heart has been so heavy lately; feeling like silly putty – stretched and distended. How apt the familiar term “heavy-hearted” is. I’m not even sure how to put the aching…
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Goodbye Cornfields…..Hello Carolinas. Goodbye hamster wheel….hello normalcy. Only problem is that, after all of these years of disquiet, I’m struggling with grasping “normal” again. I believe that all-things-considered, it’s “normal” for me to not remember normal, but I’m impatient. I don’t want to wait the year, or however long it will take, to get to where I trust that…
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Where is it written that life has to be perfect in order to be blessed? Today I am feeling very grateful for my imperfect, blessed life. Would I prefer that my husband wasn’t spending Monday through Friday in Connecticut? Heck yeah. I hate this back and forth thing. We feel like human yo-yos. It’s rough. BUT, I am blessed…
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Two years. 730 days. 104 weeks. A blink. Time is such a relentless thing. The invisible observer in the background of our days. Our weeks. Our years. I never knew to dream North Carolina for myself a second time. I’m so thankful that God dreams bigger dreams for us than we even know to dream for ourselves. Our first…
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This is my personal quest…loveliness. The dictionary has the standard gamut of definitions for this word, loveliness, but the one that is near to my heart, reads: “Of a great moral or spiritual beauty: a lovely character”. This sounds simple, and a surface level of loveliness really is fairly simple, but this alone is not my pursuit. My goal…
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