Admiring and Desiring
Have you ever known someone who had something or had a quality that you admired or desired?
Have you ever known someone who had something or had a quality that you admired or desired?
Balance. That is what I seem to lack often in life. I put this weight on my own shoulders, having this can-do attitude, but lack the balance behind it all. I feel a though the Christian life, a life that is devoted to God, is a call to balance. You may find this to be…
I had all these grand ideas of how I was going to be the perfect stay-at-home-mom. As much as didn’t/don’t want to admit it, we go into parenthood with expectations. I made the mistake of telling Dan that I didn’t really have any expectations, but the more I thought about it, I so did! I…
Tip #23 – Define what the “good life” is for you, that does NOT include a life of goods. It is easy to get caught up in the consumerism lifestyle of America. We think that acquiring and accumulating will make us happy. Yet our desire for simplifying is exact opposite of this mentality – that…
Christmas is fast approaching? Are you ready? I sometimes feel when people ask the question whether I am ready or not, I feel I have to have this huge checklist checked off, with nothing but Christmas bliss left. Christmas shouldn’t be about a to-do list. Yet that is what we have made it to be….
Do you ever walk into your home and wish you had less stuff? Do you ever read in your favorite home magazine about organizing, decluttering and living only with the minimal? I used to think about living with minimal constantly. I would scrounge our house looking for what else we could live without. The thing…
After being issued the mandate to not only keep my distance from others, but to also stay at home, I was forced to reflect. I was forced to adjust MY way of living and succumb to the new commands. There was no turning back. And looking back, it was one of the best things that…