Do you ever feel like you’re not doing enough in this season of your life? Yep, me too. Here’s what recently changed my perspective. I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor like a kindergartener,...
I’m driving with my husband on a beautiful day after having Thai food (my favorite) and all seems well until I remember a recent mistake. My inner critic speaks up with harsh words and suddenly my...
We’re celebrating love in happy ways this month. We’ll give each other heart-shaped balloons, cards with warm words, and boxes of chocolates. But what about the times when someone we love is in a...
The church is in the center of a small town, the kind that’s a combination of boarded up windows and cute boutiques selling soap with ribbons around it or antiques repainted turquoise. The foyer...
In my early twenties I sat in a counselor's office and first heard these words, "You have depression and anxiety." Relief flooded through me. There was a name for my struggles? Help for what I...
As we start a new year, it’s easy to focus on goals and resolutions. Can we also take a moment to recognize all we’ve made it through? Maybe last year you got up on a day you didn’t feel like it,...
I stand in front of the mirror and ask my reflection, “How could you have done that?” I think back to an incident yesterday where I was not at my best. As much as I want to, I can’t take back the...
I’m seated on a chair in the middle of the kitchen in my childhood home, a towel draped around my neck like a makeshift cape. My mom and grandmother read instructions from the back of a box. How...
Sometime in recent years it feels like the volume got turned up in our world. The Internet in particular can feel like an angsty teenager blaring angry music with no concern for anyone else in the...
We all hear it at times . . . the whisper in our hearts that says, “You really should be doing more.” It usually intrudes right in the middle of our ordinary. When we’re washing dishes. Or changing...