Tag: perspective

Life has a way of marching forward and there are seasons of growth and change and seasons of prioritizing what we invest our time in. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (ESV) sums it up rather eloquently: “1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time...

My baby brother tuned eighteen this past Sunday, which definitely makes me feel old, considering I’m fifteen years his senior (however, according to our ninety-one-year-old friend, old is when you take your adult son to collect social security). Since it was my brother’s golden birthday, I wanted to make...

Crunch. The impact slammed me forward and my seat belt jerked me back. That did NOT just happen, I thought, my mind surprised and incredulous. It didn’t take long for it to become a believer. I had definitely been rear-ended on the interstate, on a Friday night, no less....

It is easy to become discouraged when we focus on what we can’t do. For example, I find it disheartening that I can’t exercise the way I did before suffering two major physical injuries. Wanting to eat healthy and lacking the time to cook vexes me. On top of...

Life can feel stressful. Responsibilities can seem overwhelming. The “to-do” list somehow never quite makes it into being the “completely done” list. When we choose to place our focus on the things that didn’t go right, or the tasks that didn’t get completed, or something we messed up on,...

Something I have been learning lately is how to work from a place of rest instead of toward a place of rest. More often than not, I feel like I have to “do all the things” in order to have the space needed to rest. That means the kitchen...

I internalize things, a lot of things: stress, frustrations, worries, perceptions of people or events that occur. I’ll over think a situation, trying to figure out every little detail, oftentimes before the event or potential circumstance even occurs. While a certain amount of planning and forethought is necessary, too...

Have you ever made a plan, only to have it all go seemingly awry? That was me this past Tuesday. I got off work a little earlier than usual and had plans to put the finishing touches on last week’s blog post, make dinner, and get to bed at...

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...

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...