Have you ever wondered why you breathe? Have you ever had that depressed, discouraged, “Oh, why am I even bothering?” hopeless-style response to life’s circumstances? If you have served Him in ministry for a while, struggle with depression, or worse, both, you know what I’m talking about. I have talked with a LOT of Christian …
Maybe you’ve got this little secret-to-helping-your-marriage gem down solid-style, but if you don’t, if you miss this, you miss a LOT. Been here? 4:30pm. Kids running through the house, chasing each other, squealing like pigs. Dog barking. Phone ringing. Pot boiling. And he’ll be home in an hour. To this chaos. The messy Now you …
Dare 6 – Got Friends? You could take one look at me as an 11 year-old and feel my pain. I often stood at the fence outside the school, dreading another day of torturous interaction with my classmates. My gangly arms and legs and too big tortoise-shell glasses framed my small genderless face, and I stood …
As promised, today we begin our new dare journey – it’s for any woman, married or not, of any age. You can find the back story here. Invite friends. I can’t wait to get started! 🙂 I’m looking at this as “Respect 101 – Respecting God, Ourselves, and Others” Dare 1 Got Expectations? A gangly …
I sat next to him while he drove. Wise teen-man-boy-something-awesome guy that emerges daily anew. Discussing priorities with him. You know, the ones where you try hard to create life balance out of the bazillion things you want/have/need to do? And I took a risk. Might seem small here, sure does after the fact. Seemed …
What parent doesn’t lie awake at night sometimes wondering (or freaking out) about whether their kids will end up in hell? It’s the last thing we want. It’s the first thing we think of when our kids reach that “age of discernment” when they know about God, and we wonder if they really know …
There’s probably a ton more than 2 wise women we should attempt to be like. I don’t know about you, but I have some wise women friends that just blow my mind with how mature they are. One of my friends is going through a hard time right now. Her husband did something awful. I’m …
“I need a week,” I told him. “I want to talk about this well, and right now, I just can’t.” One of my teens needed to discuss something super important…life-changing-style important…but I’d lost so much sleep and been emotionally keyed up for so long, I knew I wouldn’t do it well. Knew I’d dishonor God …
Have you felt the pressure of the lies about wanting it all? One of the few things that makes me about half crazy frustrated at the mere mention of the subject is GENDER EQUALITY. Now, bear in mind, I’m NOT talking about equal pay for equal work. I’m also not saying that there aren’t bad men out …
Do you love your kids more than you love God? I did. I was wrong. In Twelve Truths to Change Your Marriage, there’s a story about how I was sitting around a table with a bunch of women at Bible study one morning and the Holy Spirit convicted me that I had something “on the throne” …