There is an amazing thing that happens when I start, finish and intersperse the day with prayer – my day is filled with peace, gratitude, strength, patience and abiding joy. Life things still happen – there are a bunch of little kids here, after all 藍 – but the underlying joy and strength that change […]
My mama’s Bible study group and I were reading through and studying the book of Jeremiah recently, and in the second chapter, God reveals His frustration at Judah for forsaking Him, the fountain of living water, for broken cisterns that they had made themselves – meaning that they had sunk deep into idolatry and sin […]
I have always been intrigued by the human body and, in college, I studied sports medicine – I became fascinated by the intricacies of the human body and how God created each tiny detail to function together so perfectly to allow us to move and run and be active and mobile. One of the most […]
The other night, I was running the race and the finish line was bedtime. Little people all done for the day, check that box and move on! Bathtime was a process, complete with discovering a little lie that had been told, subsequent discipline and some big life lessons. At first, I was frustrated and immediately […]
I was standing there, looking in the mirror. Maybe you other mamas can relate, but in that moment, I was overwhelmed as I saw all of my flaws – my belly, that not so long ago was rounded out and twice quite literally bursting with life, now just there and sort of limp. My teeth, […]
I spent the days leading up to New Year’s much like everyone else, I imagine: determined to do whatever it takes to make 2021 a better year than 2020 was! I am coming out of the newly postpartum phase of life and feeling like I needed a jumpstart to be feeling good again, and so […]
My Christmas doodle this year! Maybe it’s the fact that I’m just coming out of the newborn season, or maybe it’s that I have so many loved ones expecting this year, but every time I have heard or seen the phrase “buon Natale” this year, it has stuck out to me and made me think […]
Hello there, lovely readers! It’s been a minute! I have missed this so much, but in truth, the past two months just haven’t left me much time (or brain cells!) to write — as it is, you will be getting lots of “3am thoughts” from here on out…please forgive my mom brain ramblings 😀 I […]
I often find myself listening to popular praise and worship songs, and I know the words, so, of course, I sing along! But sometimes I stop to wonder if I am actually thinking about the words that I am singing and do I actually mean them? Do any of us? This hit me most recently […]
Can I write a whole book entitled “Things I Once Thought, That Were Just Plain Wrong”? The newest and latest thing on that list is believing that once God asks you to do something, its always and forever on your plate in the same quantity and capacity, and you may never stop doing it full […]
