Written last week: This post, I write while I am sitting beside my hospital bed, waiting to hear if I will be discharged or not. As I gaze out the window and realize that I soon will be stepping into “the world” again, I can’t help but reflect on my life. Such a heavy thought…
When Mazy was a baby, I had this high expectation of myself to raise this well-behaved, sleep through the night, eat everything under the sun, compliant baby. I mean who doesn’t go into having their first kid, thinking that in some shape or form? It doesn’t matter how many children you have, we all set…
So yesterday I posted about the new heart failure symptoms I have been feeling and today we learned that God has had a plan in his back pocket, that he decided to reveal to us late yesterday afternoon. I have been speaking with an AMAZING nurse from my heart failure team at Michigan and she…
Body image is something I have always wrestled with in some shape or form. I am incredibly quick to see every fault of my body, only focusing on the parts I don’t like. It’s easy to see the blemishes. It’s easy to see the scars. It’s easy to see the effects of age. Do you…
I never imagined my life looking like this. I never imagined having 2 babies in heaven, being 3 open heart surgeries in, but also having the most beautiful daughter sleeping soundly in her bed at this moment, with a husband who is my biggest cheerleader. Even though I couldn’t feel more blessed with the gifts…
Do you find yourself wondering what your purpose is? Why on earth you are here? What you are supposed to be doing? Where you are supposed to be? And just what God’s will is specifically for YOUR life? I have wrestled with ALL of these questions. Questions that I find myself asking time and time…
