1:00 a.m. You’ve spent two hours trying everything, unsuccessfully, to relax and fall asleep. Continue reading “Finding HOPE In Depression”
When Prayer Doesn’t Change Him, Her Or Anything
What makes you feel hopeless? When your brain feels ready to explode after reading every stinkin’ marriage, parenting, or financial peace book you can find, only to try to put the professional advice to work, and it doesn’t make a difference? Continue reading “When Prayer Doesn’t Change Him, Her Or Anything”
Why Leggings, Vaccines And Working Moms Are Not The Problem
What do debates about leggings (worn as pants), vaccines and working moms have in common with fractured friendships, broken marriages, and painful church splits? The debates often include a prideful “I am right and I can prove it to you” attitude that splinters at the core of loving unity in all relationships and results in an ugly misrepresentation of Christ.
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The Amazing No-Excuses Running Gloves
I feel a little like a superhero shooting energy from my hands when they’re gloved in my favorite Christmas gift. Hey, let me have my moment. My little world expands into an undistracted universe of opportunities when I slip these babies on!
How the Impossible Becomes Possible
If your imagination produced the results of your highest aspirations, your wildest dreams gave birth to things your imagination could not contain, and your goals had no limitations, would you fly higher? Continue reading “How the Impossible Becomes Possible”
Overcoming Defeat and Failure
A couple weeks away from the historically popular goal-setting day of New Year’s Eve and I’m thinking a lot of the overwhelmed feeling of defeat and failure we often feel in the areas of our lives that are a top priority. I have a changed perspective that initiated an immense amount of positive life-changing hope for me when I encounter feelings of failure.
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Why I’m Not Thankful For Everything
The few weeks before Thanksgiving had me in a spirit of unthanksgiving of the greatest magnitude I’ve felt in quite awhile. To my husband, I’m a sort of Pollyanna and when I’m struggling to give thanks, it gets ugly. Not ugly like it used to, but nevertheless there’s not a lot of “how yooouuu doin?” like Joey from Friends if that makes sense to you. I’m not light-hearted when I’m in pain, I’m not funny when I’m hurting and my usually optimistic perspective starts clouding over like fogged up glass and I start speaking words of defeat and rejection. Continue reading “Why I’m Not Thankful For Everything”
How Sweater Vests Make Dates And Getaways Weird
I’m so thankful that my parents gave us an incredible example of the importance of dating and couples getaways, especially after being married. As kids, we looked forward to the excitement of the mystery drop off location, usually at my grandma’s house but sometimes aunts and uncles or random friends of the family.
During our last trip to Wellsboro, as we chatted about flashbacks of memories of the last 18 years of about 1,800 dates and annually planned getaways to celebrate anniversaries, I realized I was having more fun with my husband then I’d ever had. I’m talking ever….as in before we were married fun with my best friend that is trumping our dating days!
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When His Yoke Is Difficult And His Burden Is Heavy
Why does doing the right thing seemingly collide with doing the hard thing? What is it about those days when you’ve given every sweat drop from your too-large pores in self-sacrifice and exhausted all emotional energy and made choices that would’ve made your pastor proud DOING it all right and you still come up empty?! Continue reading “When His Yoke Is Difficult And His Burden Is Heavy”