Mentally trace your steps through the day and carefully construct mechanisms that give you margin to connect with yourself as you really are, with your God as He really is, and with the people around you God has placed to help you notice His presence and goodness in your life.
I mean, really? Am I a moron? Or just so desperate by the end of May for some R&R that I really think summer will be a restful season even when all four kids are home and need help every step of the way to be semi-productive, non-eye-rolling human beings?!
A few weeks ago, a friend's daughter turned 13, and she asked a few women, including myself, to write letters to her daughter about how to navigate the teenage years. Because let's be honest about something here - being a teenager in today's world is HARD. And being...
I've never been the victim of sexual abuse. But I know plenty of women who have. Women who I love. Women who have cried beside me in the dark, gripped my hands hard sharing stories from the past, and whose souls wear scars they were never meant to wear. When I saw...
Sometimes it’s easy to be full of regret – regret for doing life a certain way for so many years, regret for just now understanding or seeing something you wished you had understood so many years ago, or regret for unhealthy relational dynamics with family or friends....
Moms sacrifice so much to make us the people we are today. It's easy for us to remember their role in our stories, but sometimes we forget (I know at least I do) to remember our moms' stories - where they have come from and what they have had to overcome. I wanted to...
Recently I had a pantry day. Not in the sense of I made my weekly run to the grocery store and unloaded a bunch of food in the pantry (that is something I still need to do this week), but a pantry day in the sense of I needed an enclosed, small space. Because if I've...
A little over two weeks ago, my dad turned 80. It’s hard for me to believe that the dad of my youth – tall, strong, handsome, gentle, kind, accomplished, invincible – is the dad of my adulthood. Some things have not changed – my dad is still as tall, handsome, and...
The last few weeks I've been doing a lot of thinking on the topic of remembering. I've started preparing for the Restore Retreat coming up February 2022, and I've been writing a workbook to accompany the book I am releasing in January, Restore: Remembering Life's...
Several of my people have experienced hard things, really disappointing things this week. Just when we all thought we were almost out of the woods with COVID, cases started to rise and masks started to go back on. Once again, life can come to a screeching halt and...