There’s something indescribable about following God. I started this blog a little over a year ago without much of a clue why except that I felt God urging me to do it. I was even more clueless about all that went into blogging. (I’m extra thankful for women like Amy & Ashley who have either […]
When Life Gives You Little Things, Embrace Them
Tears well up more readily for me these days. I know it’s in large part because the hormones of motherhood are swelling just as much as my abdomen on this home stretch of pregnancy. Yet some of the tenderness, joy, and emotion that washes over me in recent days comes from a deeper source. It […]
Choosing to do it Anyway
As I embark on the fourth Christmas season as a mother, I can see progress. Of course in my son, but also in me. In the beginning, I believed I should be the mom whose kid did every creative project known to man, so I’d have my one year old attempting to make hand print […]
High Five for Friday
I decided to try something new today. A couple of my friends have been doing it on their blogs, and today it seems to fit with what God has been showing me this week. It’s called High Five for Friday, and I will be linking up with From My Grey Desk. This week I’ve felt […]
A Call to Pray
Prayer is powerful. That simple little sentence is something that is easy to say, yet it hardly begins to encompass the depth of its truth. God speaks of the power of prayer throughout His Word. He took time to teach His followers how to pray. He led by example multiple times during His years on […]
Every Day Worship
Dear Father, I’ve been a mess lately. I feel raw, emotional, unworthy, and unattractive. Instead of meditating on the beauty of a life growing inside me, I note the chubbiness of my cheeks, the balloon-like ankles if I’ve been on my feet for too long, and the ever-tightening fit of my wardrobe. Somewhere in the […]
Hope with a Generation
Moms worry. We question why those sweet children of ours struggle with certain milestones. Did that cough coronate the reign of an illness in their sweet little bodies? Are we teaching them enough and in the most effective way? How about the nutrients they miss out on when they refuse to eat certain healthy foods? […]
Discovering and Choosing True Friendship
From the beginning of mankind, God saw that we had a need only able to be fulfilled by each other. When God, for the first time since creating the world uttered the words, “It is not good,” it was after observing Adam’s aloneness. In His sovereign wisdom, God knew beforehand that He would create Eve, […]
Thankful for my Gardener
I look at my dying garden. It’s been a rough year, and I can see it by the evidence displayed in my unkempt garden. I wanted to give up on many other things, but my little patch of mangled plants is who took the beating. Thankfully, God gave me a gardener to come along my […]
On People Pleasing
There was joy in his leap. He didn’t look around to see who was watching, he simply seized the opportunity to embrace one of the great things about this season, threw his hands in the air, and jumped. Because I’m a people pleaser by nature, sometimes I miss moments like these. Instead of soaking in […]