Before You Blow Up Your Life, Take a Nap

Before You Blow Up Your Life, Take a Nap   ⸻ When Sadness Isn’t the End of the World I was recently visiting my sister in Montana. She has an 11-year-old daughter, and you know what that means—the hormone rollercoaster is just pulling up to the station. One day, my niece called her mom and said, […]

“Be Happy—It’s Up to You”

Be Happy—It’s Up to You Do you ever catch yourself thinking that if you can just get to the future… life will be good? When my husband is [blank] or my children are [blank], or when I lose 30 pounds, or when I’m finally brave enough to finish my degree, or when I start my ministry, or when my mother […]

Willing to Be Disturbed: “But My Family!” Part 2

What?? Did I hear you right?? So, you want me to go to Indonesia with you for THREE MONTHS?! Uh no.  I am a mom. And I don’t care that my boys are 17 & 19…. They STILL NEED ME.  So, you can take that idea and throw it in the trash!  My response to […]

How to Make the Holidays Count!

Holidays come with STRESS.  They come with FEELINGS.  They come with MEMORIES, and this time of year, MAGNIFIES it all.  They come with the game of gift giving and whether or not it was up to the standard.  They come with spending money we don’t have on things no one needs.  In an attempt to make it about FAMILY, the […]