It’s all so new and different. My office is no longer in a cozy cube across from my coworker, now it’s in my bedroom’s cozy nook. My comfy mama space has been replaced with a chair and small desk. I can’t just call out to my coworkers, instead I have to literally call them…like on a phone, or ZOOM. It…
If God’s promises for us are, “Yes and Amen,” then why so often do they actually feel like his promises are really, “No and never”? If you open up God’s word and spend some time getting oriented with it you’ll see hundreds of promises God has made to His people. God is not one that He should lie and He…
I love the book of James. I love his character and how straight forward he is! I think we’d be friends, honestly. In his book you find this gem in chapter 1:1-4: “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance…
It’s interesting when old wounds rise to the surface. You see an old face on Instagram or a past friend comment on a FB thread and that familiar sting bites at your heart. With the current climate, I can’t help but wonder if the quarantine is just making me more sensitive or if God’s nudging me in the sweetest way…
If you’re anything like me, life balance is a hard thing to find even on the most “normal” of days. Throw in a pandemic that isolates you, and your family, from friends, your support system, a faith community, and recreation; and balance becomes an obsolete ideal of days gone by. In today’s blog post, I’ve been asked to share with…
Times of stress and tension in marriage are common. Unfortunately, dealing with them in a healthy way is less common. Sometimes the tension is overwhelming. Sometimes we’re just too tired to deal with it and we hope it will magically disappear. Sometimes it is the same old problem rearing its ugly head over and over again and we feel defeated…
Years ago a dear friend—Karebear, I lovingly call her—gifted me a box, a beautiful box she’d wrapped in colorful tape and sprinkled with encouraging quotes to inspire me to dream and have faith in those dreams. This box was so timely because I was in a headspace where I wanted so desperately to believe God for big dreams, impossible miracles,…
These quarantine days initially began with lots of emotions and “unspokens” in the Smith household. 2020 came in like a flood with lots of unexpected grief and the accompanying need to push emotions down until all that had happened could be processed. Well that time to process didn’t happen. Once the shelter in place order hit Austin, there was no…