Finding Beauty after the Storm
While out grocery shopping recently, I got caught in one of the many afternoon thunderstorms we’ve been having lately. I’m talking torrential downpour and flash flooding type of thunderstorm. Running through the rain to get my car so I could park by the curb to load my groceries, I...
New Shoes and a Firm Foundation
I recently wore my Keen sandals out completely. Now, granted, they probably should have been replaced a few years ago, but in my mind, they were still functional, so I kept using them. Last October’s trip to Arizona found me super gluing the straps back into the foot bed...
Waiting for Breakthrough
Two and half years and three weeks. That’s approximately 30.75 months, which equals about 133.36 weeks, which equates to roughly 934.50 days. That is how much time has elapsed since the night my world exploded in a t-bone collision. Some days, it seems like it was just yesterday. Other...
Fear and Faith: Two Sides of the Same Coin
I’ve been contemplating a lot lately about fear: fear over the direction our country seems to be headed, fear of our constitutional rights being taken away, fear of what it will be like to raise children someday if our country continues on the path of self-destruction, fear that life...
Choosing Rest
Relax. Kick your feet up. Take a break already. Harder than it looks, at least for me. I’ve had to work at resting. Ever sat down to laze away on your day off, only to notice all the things around you that need to be done? It seems that...
Stressed Spelled Backward is Desserts
Super special, five layer birthday cheesecake served! I should back up. I spent a delightfully relaxing 4th of July weekend with my family and enjoying the time with one of my sisters before she moved to Nebraska after the holiday. However, because I wasn’t really home much, I also...
Pulling the Weeds of Ungodly Beliefs
Pulling weeds recently in a neglected section of the backyard flower bed, I was amazed at how large some of the roots were to the dandelion plants that had managed to grow several feet tall. The main root went deep and was several inches across. Shaped similar to a...
Digging up the Root of Anger
Anger. We all feel it to one extent or another. We’ve all experienced it as a reaction to circumstances or how people treat us in different situations. Most times, we even believe we’re justified for feeling angry because we think we have the right to feel that way, especially...
The Anchor of Our Hope
I’m watching a train wreck. I’m watching, not with the macabre fascination that we generally have toward calamities, but in near panic and bewilderment. It’s not a YouTube of some random wreck that I can gasp at in surprise while being secretly entertained. No, this train wreck is close...
The Masks We Hide Behind
When Executive Order 63 was enacted here in the Commonwealth of Virginia at the end of May as part of the plan to begin opening back up after all of the pandemic craziness, there was a section I was extremely ticked off about. It was the part that made...