Tag Archives: Faith

In Philippians 3:12 Paul says, “I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.” To me, this is the great mystery of where God’s work in our lives and our own...

  On this week of “Refreshing” I’ve been praying a lot about what it means to me to be refreshed.  Truly refreshed!  So I thought of how I love to take looo...

As Mothers, our best efforts in life are spent on those we love - leaving us satisfied, worn out and smiling! I have felt this way many times over the years. However, if Mom isn’t refreshed then...

Each of us is given a unique story to live. We don't get to choose it. But we do get to choose how we will live it.  The same is true for your kids. Because God is a master storyteller, ...

The first time I visited the Amazon jungle I had no idea the way it would change my life. I suppose it goes back to the idea of how encountering a world vastly different from your own will always chan...

I am a step mom.  If it sounds a little like I’m introducing myself at an A.A. meeting, that isn’t so far away from how it feels. These words often require work for me to o...

“I get the feeling that you really don’t like being just a mom.” The words my husband spoke were concise and piercing.  He had seen something deep in the heart of me, and now wa...

As I drive down the country roads in my town during the morning hours, I see children standing by the road waiting for their school buses.  The younger ones look tiny and scared in their bulky ba...

I don’t remember very many nights over the last year, that I haven’t gone to bed, feeling like I wasn’t enough. Every night, with kids tucked in, my mind has raced over the day, reca...

My luggage got lost today. So here I sit, in a random hotel room in Randomville, USA with no clothes. Or shoes. Or hairspray. It’s knocking on the door of a lot of my insecuri...