Bloganuary: What Brings You Joy in Life?

The prompt for yesterday was this question: “What brings you joy in life?” Connection. Connection to people and to God is what brings me joy the most consistently in life. The fragility of working on positive connection. The hope of setting up even more beautiful connections in the future. The organic interactions I have with

Guest Post on Joy in the Face of Fear

“…I felt my heart afraid to hope for anything. All I felt was this overwhelming feeling of fear and dread. I told her about these feelings and how they were clouding my judgment. I couldn’t make logical decisions that I needed to make because I was too afraid.”

Nothing figured out

Hi sweet friend! I’m so happy to welcome you back to this blog. It’s a place for us to meet. To take a deep breath in, then out. Stay awhile and let me say a few things that I hope bring, well, hope to your heart and mine! Has this ever been you? (It’s been

God, our Father in Heaven

Many of us are familiar with this prayer from Matthew 6:9-13 which says, 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven,hallowed be your name.[a]10 Your kingdom come,your will be done,[b]    on earth as it is in heaven.11 Give us this day our daily bread,[c]12 and forgive us our debts,    as we also have forgiven our debtors.13 And lead us not into temptation,    but deliver us from evil.”[d]

Renaissance

I was sharing this with my husband. So much is going on within my heart and mind right now. I think it’s a renaissance of me. God showing me the very heart of who He created me to be. And giving me the way forward to actually voice what has been stuffed inside for many,

Do you ever feel like you just aren’t enough?

Do you ever feel like you just aren’t enough? Don’t do enough, can’t give enough? Everyone around you seems to do the best they can and you come up short, again. In your tone of voice, your work, your estimation of yourself, your weight, your style, your smarts, your ability to save money, to raise

2019- Year in Review

2019 will always be the year I had my baby girl. She came to us “late” but early this year in February. Such a sweet gift and perfect addition to our family. I just finished playing with my son, laying beside each other laughing inside his tent. There’s nothing that fills my heart so much

What I wish They Told Me Before Having 2 Kids under 2

Here’s what I wish “they” would’ve told me before I had 2 kids under 2. Fall and Christmas plates & decor come back in season before you know it. Just leave them out! 🙂 You might feel like you are required to be the energizer bunny & pulled in many directions, but just breathe. It.will.all.come.together!

What Type of Parent I am

I’ve had the amazing realization of what kind of parent I should be this week. I want to start by saying that I have a reallly compassionate heart and I remember what it was like to be a tenderhearted kid. So, I guess I’ve always wondered how I would parent. I figured that I would

To the One

For being a courageous person, I haven’t felt very fear-less lately. Haven’t felt like stepping out. And along with that, my goal of using this as a platform to hear others’ voices, a chorus of courageous ones together has not been happening. In fact, I’ve failed to post someone’s blog who accepted my invitation to