Changes. Changes are never easy. Changes are sometimes not welcomed. Sometimes I can be an ole fuddy-duddy Dutch girl who just wants things to always be the same – like sitting in the same pew every Sunday (no we actually don’t do that). As much as I don’t like change sometimes, I realize I’ve gone…
One month. What a month it has been. When I was cleaning today, I kept thinking about all the hardships this past month has brought, yet I still have so many things to be thankful for. I want today to be filled with praise for the things I am thankful for that God has taken…
The roller coaster. I feel like I’m on it today. Church sometimes can be such a positive experience, but at times, especially recently, it becomes a reminder of everything that we are going through. For example, and I know this may sound strange, but there was a children’s message and for some reason all the…
Dan put it well today “we are becoming really good at juggling a lot of things at one time and finding ways to make them work.” What he was referring to was our schedule this weekend b/c it was absolutely crazy til about 2 hours ago. Now we have nothing on the schedule, which feels…
How are you? I struggle with that phrase. I always have. There is so much packed into that question. Today at Bible study I talked about how I struggle with that just b/c it can be a very informal question, though it’s a very personal one. If I ask someone how they are doing, I…
The other day I found the journal that I had written in when I was going through my open heart surgery in late 2000-early 2001. I found it pretty cool that I came across it, especially after what we are going through now. Never in my mind 10ish years ago, would I think we would…
