The other day, I read in my devotional how we often try to stay busy, as our culture screams at us to do so. For indeed, it’s our culture that tries to make us believe that a busy life is a successful life. When we spend umpteen hours at our job, surely that makes us…
Is this not the battle within many of us? We are buried and in over our heads with things to do, hurrying and scurrying around, trying to accomplish as much as we can in as little of time as possible. I am the BEST at this! And that’s not something to be proud of. I…
Since moving a few months ago, something I could not wait to do was decorate for the various upcoming seasons. With the leaves starting to fall, I can’t help but think “fall,” even though it’s 90 degrees outside. Literally. Regardless of the temperature outside, when I look in our home, I want to see fall….
Do you ever catch yourself in the middle of something and you wonder “why am I doing this?” I have totally been there. Call it what you want – mindless searching or mindless dreaming. You know what I’m talking about! You jump on Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, or even your favorite website, and have this life-envy…
Trust me, this goes against everything I was taught! Growing up, I was taught to sort my laundry. Towels with towels, sheets, and well, towels. Jeans with other dark items, on the permanent press setting. Whites with whites. I mean it’s pretty self-explanatory and really pretty easy. After Dan and I got married, as I…
When meeting with the surgeon last week, he told me that I could live a normal life again. A normal life. When he said that, I started to tear up, but in reality, I had no idea what I was tearing up about because truthfully speaking, I have never known normal. And who has? What…
