A Glimpse of God’s Power
Yesterday, one of my children was arguing with me about wearing shorts to school. This morning, I awoke to six inches of fresh snow on the ground. The weather can turn on a dime, especially here in...
View ArticleLacking Something
For some time, I’ve felt a lack in my life. Lack of joy, lack of peace, lack of growth, lack of a sense of the presence of God. I’m lacking something. Everything’s just…lacking. In those rare quiet...
View ArticleTruly Live – a resolution of sorts
The first day of a new week, a fresh page on the calendar, the dawning of a new year…these are a few of my favorite things. Why? They all represent a fresh start, a chance to try again. After many...
View ArticleTen Things I’ve Learned Since I Fell off the Blogging Train
It has been a relentless season year two years of change, challenge, and growth for our family. You may have suspected as much by my lack of presence here. Rather than writing fourteen posts about all...
View ArticleCreated for One Purpose
I had the privilege of speaking to a beautiful group of women last night. We enjoyed a delicious BBQ supper, had some fun together weighing purses (way to go Candice with the 6 lb handbag!), and spent...
View ArticleYear in Review – 2013
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Last year I resolved to truly live, to be in the moment rather than looking back or waiting for the next thing, to say yes more, to do life with joy. Two-thousand...
View ArticleA Fresh Start for 2014
Today is the last day of my 35th year,* and still one of the early days of the fresh, new year…And thoughts of fresh starts are on my mind. I love fresh starts. Monday is my favourite day of the week....
View ArticleLife Shouldn’t be so HARD!
Recently, friends have been asking me for advice…about marriage and parenting. (Ha! The irony. They think I know something about these things!) My friends are worn out, beaten down, broken, and ready...
View ArticleStop Wishing and Start DO-ing
There are some things in my life that I want to change. I’m no longer satisfied with how they are. Yet all I do is wishful thinking and a bit of self-flagellating. Nothing changes. “If you do what...
View ArticleThe Good Behind the Bad
Rarely in this life do we come across something that is all good or all bad. Almost all things have an element of both. For example, winning the lottery. It would seem to be one of those “all good”...
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