Oh, how to be patient. Waiting. Patience. Endurance. Perseverance. I’ve never been good at those amazing characteristics. As a young girl, I remember that waiting for Christmas or going to grandma’s house or a Friday night sleepover was tough stuff. I remember counting the days, packing my bag way too soon and thinking about it …
Tough as Nails
It was not coming to me. Don’t you hate that feeling? A phrase had been running through my head for days and I could NOT remember where it was from… a movie? a song? Instead of being able to match it with something solid, the phrase seemed to float around in my head like a …
I Need A Break – Maybe You Need Time Away
Imagine your daughter is standing before you, red face and tears. Her sniffling nose and tired eyes are speaking to you louder than her words. “Yep. Bedtime,” you think to yourself while grabbing a kleenex from the box next to you. You can see the signs all over her that she needs a break and …
Letting Your Heart Rest
Oh, the process of learning how to let go. That has been a big part of my year. Letting my heart rest in seasons of change, high stress and challenges. I’ve been in this year of mending. You have been walking it with me. Maybe you are walking your own year of mending. Your own …
Hearing the Whisper to Go
My heart eyes can still see the place, the moment when I first felt God leading me into service to Him. I was maybe 9 or 10 years old, with my face down on the scratchy red carpet in a very old camp building. There weren’t any spoken words or big declarations of a calling. …
Then Follow Me
You know the moments when we choose to follow Jesus. Those moments come often in our lives. Learning to follow him in everything. One night, I rolled over in bed around 2am, hit my phone to see the time and saw an email alert from the embassy. That’s never good. And it wasn’t. A new, …
But I Thought
I was reading in 2 Kings 5, the story of Naaman, a reminder of how God sees everything. I was reading slowly while drinking my morning coffee. French press. Hot and dark… the last of my Kenyan coffee beans. The palm trees were blowing outside in the hot wind of an early West African morning. …
7 Tools for Making Decisions
There have been a few things in my life recently where I’ve had to make a decision. When I needed decision making tools that were practical, helpful and beneficial for real life. Don’t you love decision time? #insertlaugh Big decisions. Small decisions. Hard decisions. I had a few medical decisions to make, a decision about …
I Do Not Know
I really don’t. I was talking to Jeremy today, tears welling in my eyes and I said, “I don’t even know what to say… I just don’t know.” Nothing drastic happened. It was actually a very normal day. I cooked pancakes from the batter Jeremy made with his sourdough starter. I helped the girls get …