Trained by Grace
When you are created, all is grace. My breath, my abilities, my hair and eyes, my whole life, is grace. To soak in the idea of being created- being part of creation- gives me a whole different perspective on life. I’m here with a …
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The Real Enemy
My Mom always told me, “When you see something in multiples, pay attention.” (I’m pretty sure she also told me too much caffeine might stunt my growth, but I ignored that nugget of wisdom and only made it to 5’4″.) Anyway, this week, on three …
Sniffing Underwear and Other Signs of Insanity
What has happened to my life? I used to be a moderately sane person. Debatable, but still. Sanity is a luxury few mothers can afford, apparently. The lack of sanity is why I assume mothers pinch and scrape and coupon cut or only buy clothes …
Stubborn vs. Whiny
I have a four year old who is such a boy- all stubborn and strong willed, who often prefers loud one-syllable monster noises to more sophisticated conversation. Say he asks for a cookie and I tell him “no.” Does he complain? No, but he ignores …
To Tame an Inner Child
We all have not-so-fantastic parent moments. Some are ugly, some are sad, some are just plain laughable (after the fact, of course.) One of my recent errors was to leave a dirty diaper on the floor after changing my youngest son. I completely forgot …
Facebook Withdrawal
The New Year arrived and, for the first time in many years, I did not sit down to write out a list of goals for myself. I did, however, think of a word for this year…a word that I hope will flesh itself out in …
That’s The Way the Christmas Tree Crumbles
We usually try to get a real tree as soon after Thanksgiving as we can- this year I think we hauled the tree home on November 30th. Which is wonderful- I mean, let’s get the joy of the Christmas season started as soon as possible! …
Not Enough
At a conference recently I heard someone speak about lies- the lies the enemy wants us to believe about ourselves to keep us from truly living. So the guy basically asked everyone, “What is the lie that you are believing?” And my first thought was …
Insurance Inshmurance…
I sat down this week to re-apply for our insurance. I was so excited to be filling out an electronic application instead of the usual paper one…for all of ten minutes. Because at minute ten I realized that I somehow botched a question at minute …
He Can’t Love Me More
So this is a part 2 to my last post. It was an idea I sort of wanted to tack on to the end, but at that point I was going to have an obnoxious rambly transition, and no pays attention to wordy so I …