There’s a lot of daydreaming that mommas do. …What if I started exercising again?? …What if my children learned another language?? …What if we had this awesome, totally inspiring family motto that I hand-stitched and hung above our front door?? I fill a good bit of my “free time” (ha!) with daydreams…I think about them […] Read more…
“For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” I Samuel 16:7 Have you ever been tricked by something that looked really nice…and it wasn’t? …a cute little puppy that practically bit your hand off? …a piece of chocolate that turned out to […] Read more…
Here’s a little test: On the next line, I want you to do exactly what I say. Do NOT think of a cheeseburger. Oops. You thought of a cheeseburger, didn’t you? You failed the test. 🙂 Sometimes, when we try so hard to not think of something or be like something or look like […] Read more…
Sometimes I just need to be amazed. I get bored easy…and this affects every area of my life. I don’t relax well, I jump from one project to another, I read three books at one time, and I require lots of spontaneous adventure. Fortunately, I serve a God who totally delivers on my need to […] Read more…
Every season of life has its own unique trials. Babies have the incredibly difficult task of opening their mouths so that food can go in. Children have to figure out how close they can get to “the line” before dessert privileges are taken away. Teenagers have to look like everyone else but somehow still be […] Read more…
“For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?…” 2 Corinthians 2:16 For the past nine months, I realize now that I had been “instructing” God. I made plans with prideful fists closed tightly around them. And what made this sin so difficult to recognize up until now was that […] Read more…