Are you overwhelmed? Busy? Stressed out? Worried? Sometimes the solution will surprise you. How can you find a new outlook for the overwhelmed? Y'all, I have been BUSY. The kind of busy that makes me want to sit down and cry because I feel so overwhelmed with things to do. Do you know that feeling? I have to be honest and tell you that when I feel this way, ...
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5 Things that Do Not Define You
I missed taking part in Five Minute Friday last week so I've been looking forward to it all week. At least I was looking forward to it until I saw this week's prompt. My mind went blank, and it stayed that way. I am, however, committed to participating in FMF so I'm pressing forward. We'll just have to see where this goes when it gets there. I look at the word ...
I’m Trying: Confessions of a Mom Just Making It
Yoda once said, "Do or do not. There is no try." Y'all, Yoda wasn't human. And, if there's anything I know about being human, it's this: Some days, the triumph IS the trying. Not the outcome, but the effort. As a mom, many days, all I can say is, "I'm trying." I'm trying to hold it together when it all seems to fall apart. I'm trying to teach them to ...
Treasure this: You’re free!
Don't you just love it when you happen across something beautiful in God's word? Something you've never seen before? The kind of thing that stops you in your tracks and sinks deep into your heart, transforming your thoughts and changing your perspective. In like a minute and a half. It's the kind of moment when you have no doubt that the word of God is living and active because God just ...