By nature, I’m a pretty content person. Well that is what I thought until I examined my words and actions. After listening to a message on contentment, I realized that most of my life has been waiting for the next best thing. In fact, I’m tearing up thinking about a lot of wasted space used…
Category: Soul Work
His Work
The Leadership Handbook: Book Study
We often think of leadership as supervising others or being in charge. The more I’ve studied leadership, I have found that all of us are leaders to some degree. Whether you are leading as a CEO, a parent, a student in a group project, a community organizer, or leading the way in the next family…
Say yes to interruptions
Many of you know that my home is a mixture of ages, seasons, and developmental stages. My husband and I are wrestling through being over the hill and journeying into the 50’s. Also living in the home is a middle schooler, a soon to be sophomore in college, and my parents who are in their…
How do we move forward?
Facing change and adversity can be difficult. I was drawn to reread Nehemiah’s story because I knew he was called to a difficult task with support and significant opposition. A new adventure creates new rules, people, and ways of doing. Say goodbye to automaticity and hello to the learning curve. Nehemiah was so drawn to…
Resilience: Spaces and Pauses
Pauses in life give us perspective. When we fill our life pages to the point of no margins, we have no space to just be in the moment. A fire burns when there is just the right amount of logs, fuel, and space. FIRE ~ Judy Brown What makes a fire burn is space between the…
The Passion
Passion defined: intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death Last night, on Good Friday, I took myself to a quiet place in the house to watch The Passion. In the rush of the day, an intense, driving feeling or conviction washed…
In the Garden
One of my favorite hymns is In the Garden. I come to the garden alone….He walks with me; and He talks with me; and He tells me I am His own…. When we are feeling overwhelmed, we often go to our place of comfort and safety. Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray…
If God were in the locker room before the big game: Time for a pep talk!
You are beautiful. Life is good. You have a purpose beyond your circumstances. God’s love never leaves you, and He promises to never forsake you. You are filled with so much potential, and God desires for you to live your life filled with this knowledge, and to trust His outcomes. You are adored and treasured….
You can always come home
Home. the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. Your dwelling place is uniquely different. The decor, the smell, the pictures on the wall, as well as the food in your refrigerator all support your idea of a safe, happy haven. At the end of the day, you…
Don’t Quit
In most areas of our lives we can decide to move on or quit. If a job, friendship, or hairstylist is not working out, you can look elsewhere without serious consequences. Marriage is different. We face so many challenges and unexpected seasons in which we live out our vows of “for better or for worse”….
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