Our lives are like books, our days, like pages. Each day starts out blank, clean, free of marks, words and actions. As a writer, I'm often thinking about life as a book and how I will live out my limited pages. Will I live a story worth retelling after I'm gone? Should I even live a record? And if so, what is worth writing down? Only Continue Reading
Do You Really Want More of the Same?
Do you really want more of the same? Black and white. Plain vanilla. Bland. Status quo. Normal. Is that what you really want? to blend in? I can still hear my fifteen-year-old daughter say to me, "Please be different." She typed those words just moments before on Facebook chat. She was trying to encourage to her friend who is struggling with Continue Reading
The Truth Behind My Busy
One of my biggest pet peeves is the talk of busyness. Why are we so busy? Don't we have a choice of being busy or not? Or are we all victims of our fast-paced culture saying "yes" to every invitation we get? What does being busy actually equal anyway? You do the math. Your busy + my busy = ________. What did you come up with? "Twice busy"? A Continue Reading
Living Out a Death Sentence
Life is short and then you die. A hard truth, right? Our life is short and one day we will all die. No one is spared from an expiration date. Some are taken far too young for what we feel is right. And when that happens we question the goodness of God. If God is good then why does death steal our babies and toddlers? Why me? Why now? Why? I don't Continue Reading
When Home is Nothing But Chaos
(my daughter wondered why we bought such a dirty and neglected home, and sometimes I wonder too. But GOD) For those of you who don't know, we moved on December 17th and have been remodeling our "new to us" home ever since. It's been a long, slow, hard, tiring, and expensive process. Today we finally get a kitchen faucet with real running water. A Continue Reading
