When my daughter was a baby, she used to throw herself flat on the floor at the sound of the word “no.” This was an attempt to persuade authority figures to give her her way. It seemed to come out of nowhere! She’d literally fall to the floor, have her fit, then, when she was done, the “no” would still be there waiting for her embrace. In scripture we read about another person who, one day, out of nowhere, just fell. Turns out, his motive was a wee bit different than my daughter's. Mark Continue Reading
Making Time
There I was... looking all over the place but I could not find it! Find what? Time. I’ve tried to find the time to do all that life seems to demand of me but I can’t seem to find it. And when I think I’ve found it, it slips away and gets lost yet again somewhere under the laundry, the bedtime stories, the dishes, my “9 to 5”, pillow talk, social media, date night, movie night, and “I don’t feel like doing anything” night. So what’s a girl to do? How do we find the time to get it Continue Reading
A Girl and Her Struggles
Have you ever experienced a time of struggle? Day after day of things not going well. Week after week of the ideal situation morphing into something not at all ideal? Year after year bearing the load of insecurity on your back, dragging the shackles of rejection around your ankles, all while feelings of regret teeter totter from one side of your brain to the other? It's hard to keep going when you have to deal with realities such as these. You can only smile for so long. You can only "hang in Continue Reading