I feel like I just need to say it out loud, for myself and anyone else in my current situation trying to make new year’s resolutions…so, here goes… I’m not perfect. There. The truth is out. In case you were wondering (heehee). I don’t have to put on a perfect persona or assume to have …
Do you know the joy you feel when you look forward to something? Something you are so excited for? The joy that begins as a simmer? Warming until it bursts up and over and out, causing you to smile wide in bubbly excitement? I am meditating on that joy today. Now, alternatively, do you know …
Do you ever try to hold on to time? Do you ever bottle it up and try to save it? Or do you squeeze it so tightly yet still feel it stealthily slipping through your locked-shut fingers like sand through an hourglass? No matter how you try to hold on, time always finds a way …
In a constant battle of valleys and hills, I was skeptical at first going to the “Come to the Table Tour,” thinking I wouldn’t glean much from this night, but I was sorely wrong. There was so much to learn. I was filled to the brim on this wonderful night of fellowship and worship, and …
Magic happens in the seemingly mundane. There is something special about singing to my son and hearing him sing back to me. Really belt it out right back at me. Face full-of-emotion, straining through his newfound sounds like he’s really trying to bring it. To bring all the melodious melodies to the air. Making it …
Do you ever have days when you are caught between two worlds? Like, you think you want one thing but very quickly you want something else? And I’m not just talking about wanting a cheese pizza and quickly changing your order to a big burrito 😉 For example, the kind of “caught between two worlds” …
My soul was in a funk as I took my son outside to get some fresh sunshine. I just needed a quiet place to settle my inner-thoughts. While quietly walking my son around our backyard, I made eye contact with a hummingbird. My eyes widened as I realized we were literally looking into each other’s …
My son woke up laughing from his nap time today and the sound reverberated from the walls sounding like laughter from God. Like serious belly laughs. It shattered my heart in the best way possible; when a shattered heart can be a good thing. The most heart-fulfilling sounds I could have imagined, coming from my …
I’m going to be honest and say that no matter where I am in the motherhood journey, I seem to always find a way to cry. Happy tears because I am so dang proud of who I birthed. And life is good in these moments of clarity, and God loves me and everything is going …
Tiny, eager hands reached out for the crinkly, squishy toy I placed before him. Without hesitation or reluctance, his little arms would stretch out and his hands would search for the toy within his grasp. He was seeking the toy. My son is at the point where everything is interesting to him. It’s a fun game …
