Waiting. Patiently waiting. Waiting well. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting… Our lives are one big hurry up and WAIT. One of the biggest questions I get asked via email has something to do with waiting. “I didn’t know it would take so long.” “We have a leave date in 3 months but still need 50% of our …
When Chaos Does Not Win
Overcoming the chaos of life is sometimes overwhelming to think about. You all feel it, don’t you? So much chaos. All around us. The whole world feels chaotic, scrambling here and there on every issue under the sun. Words swirl through my mind with very little direction on any one issue because the issues and …
A Daily Prayer for Difficult Days
Having a daily prayer for difficult days when you don’t know what to pray is so important. You can not accomplish His plan and His purposes for your days without asking Him to be a part of every moment, every circumstance. You can not raise a budget, travel, work, raise a family, have a healthy …
A Call to Patient Endurance
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
There was a phrase that I needed but 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 …
12 Signs You Need A Break and What You Can Do About It
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 …
Learning to Let 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, …