"Well, it's a Monday!" is a phrase often heard to describe an otherwise difficult start to the day or week. Whether you've said this yourself or been the bystander as someone else begins to lament over their morning woes, the way we frame our week...
A brisk walk in the morning takes me down the same beaten path. The faster I walk the faster I can get out of the heat and on to the real business of the day. Only five more minutes. Only a quarter of a mile left....
"That's hard with 20/20 hindsight," my husband texted me as I finished processing the "what-ifs" of a past loss with him. "It's unhealthy and unproductive to dwell in the past," his text continued. "It can't change anything." If only we could have 20/20 vision in the present,...
The look on my son’s face said it all. What had been a wonderful family day was being overshadowed by a disappointment that to others might seem minor but to him meant everything. Before he could stomp up the stairs and stew allowing the cloud of frustration...
“Where did the time go?” I think to myself. Staring at my daughter dressed in her graduation gown, my heart simultaneously holding the joy of pride and the pain of letting her go. “I miss you, mom,” marks the pages of my tear-stained journal this morning....
"How many more days, Mom?" my five-year old son asked over lunch. This was a question that had been on repeat for the last month or more. Anxiously awaiting his birthday, my son could barely contain his excitement. Until one morning, he woke up and said, "Happy...
We've been talking this month about walking with Jesus and how being intentional with our time and thoughts during the day can help us see the world through His eyes. Or how on days when we just don't feel like it, He beckons us to walk...
The morning was cold and the rain had already begun to fall. Every part of my body wanted to stay curled up in my warm bed. As I begrudgingly opened my eyes and allowed my feet to slide off the bed to the floor, I...
If only I had not stopped on my way out the door. The morning had started off great - coffee, time in scripture, conversation with my husband, and even a thirty-minute strength routine. I was in a great mood, and it wasn't even 8 am yet....