Five Minute Friday: My Steady, A Poem

  Steady is even, unextreme Crawling out of bitterness screaming Dragging through depression, you seem Half-dead, life out-of-sync, like in a dream Someone dies, and steady is turned upside down Everything you thought, felt and held onto Gone, evaporated, never to retrieve or own Give me a steady firm ground in faith Unshaken, unstirred by …

The Sacredness of Death

Welcome back to the place where I sometimes ponder the tough stuff. If we leave pretending behind and commit to be real, then we encounter all, no shortcuts. So stay with me if you can. We can have confidence we are not alone when we walk with Jesus through the scary, hard to know places. …

How Do You Define Sacred?

How often do you say the word sacred? Before my forties, I probably never said it Anything holy would have been followed by profanity. I know, hard to believe when you see pictures of me gazing up at Our Creator with awe and adoration, right? Sacred is life-altering.   Recently, I spoke the word for …

#FiveMinuteFriday: Worth

Worth is sticky like double-sided tape. Sometimes stuff flies through the air, insults, discontent, perceived rejection and it sticks. Meanwhile Jesus is on the inside reaching, embracing, abiding where no stickiness is needed. He is just there. There is no end and no beginning to Him, and it is hard to tell where He is …

Perfectionism: When Expectations of Self are Too High

Good morning! If its not morning when you read this, it will be soon 🙂 This post is for all my friends who struggle with perfectionism in some way, shape or form. This is the real struggle from the real me. May you be encouraged. What happens when expectations of yourself are too high? When …

Summer Temptations

Welcome back! I pray your day is full of moments that count. This post speaks frankly to anyone struggling with the temptations unique to the summer season. Here on this blog, we chat about the stuff that really matters. If there is a topic near and dear to your heart you want to see here, …

5 Ways to Balance Your Summer

Welcome back! If you are here for the first time, peek around. Today's post is geared for parents who find that sudden change in their house when school lets out. If you are not a parent, check back Tuesday when I will discuss summer's temptations.   We eat more hotdogs in the summer, but we …

Self-Forgiveness On the Porch

Thank you for visiting. Today's post is about self-forgiveness and grace, something we all are given. It's up to us to accept, which is not always easy. Well, for most families by now, school is out and summer is here! Next post is on just that 🙂 Here I sit on this porch to write …

Everyday Miracles

Welcome here! We should really have a cup of coffee sometime. I get up early, though. Just giving you a fair warning 🙂  Thank you for visiting and following. It is odd for a writer that your work is sometimes not complete until someone besides you reads it. Your presence and kind encouragement are important to me. The post on …

4 Steps to Journey Away from Perfectionism

Welcome back to my blog where I share what I learn from and about God. I have been really focused on love lately. I am SO super thankful for belonging to the family of God. My inability to embrace love with a hard heart before I knew God scares me. I don't know where I …