How Do We Find Hope at the Intersection of Love and Faith?
October 26, 2021Life is full of ups, downs, ins, outs and sometimes sideways events. When life is scary it makes grief and loss more up and in your face. “I don’t want to do this without my person and this is all so unfair” runs through the brain on repeat. At these times, be present to love and mindful of your faith and you will find yourself solidly heading in the direction of hope. Present to Love It has been 23 months since my mom died. Her death was sudden, unexpected, and caused us to make an extreme left turn in how…
How Lament Actually Empowers You to Be 100% Real with God
Do you talk to God? When you start a conversation are you real? I mean really real. Do you bring all the feelings and lay them at the feet of our Creator? Or do you stay in the lane of…
3 Astounding Confessions from a Mom’s Return to “Normal Life”
Parenting through a pandemic is interesting to say the least. I never intended to home school my children and yet we spent the entire last school year in a virtual school bubble. We spent 18 months or so keeping our…
Garden Fresh Peach Salsa in Minutes
One of my favorite things to eat any day of the year is salsa. I eat it with chips, put it on eggs or baked potatoes. Salsa is one of natures perfect foods. When it is veggie garden and farmer’s…
How to Use My Astoundingly Simple Method to Care for Sick Kids
As we move ourselves out of pandemic isolation and back into all our real-world spaces, the inevitable happened – we have three sick kids! I knew this was going to happen. I fear the little man will be sick for…
How to Redefine the Achievable Meaning of Enough
Life is a complicated arrangement of thing to do, places to go, and people to care for. Do you ever question if what you are doing is enough? I do! All. The. Time. To combat these feelings, I made ENOUGH…
5 Editing Tools to Improve The Power of Your Writing
Writing starts with an idea, but Strong Editing is Key to Effective Writing. Frantz Fanon said “everything can be understood by the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.” Writing effectively is an exercise…
I Am a Momma, I Love Being a Mom, But We Can Skip Mother’s Day
I woke up this morning and made the realization I have NO IDEA when Mother’s Day is. NONE! It is in May. I know that. Always on a Sunday, okay I know that one too. But which Sunday in May,…
Ideal You: 40 Days of Losing to Gain Something Better
One day I woke up and said enough is enough. None of my clothes fit. I feel tired and gross. I’ve tried all the normal things for weight loss for going on three years. What else is out there? I…
The Essential Way to Conquer Fear with the Exceptional Power of Faith
It’s happening again. We have a situation, I have no control, and I am scared out of my mind. Fear and Faith can not occupy the same space, but we must take practical steps in order to move from the…
3 Simple Kitchen Tricks to Cut Calories Not Taste
So you want to cut some calories, but have no interest in eating bland food that resembles cardboard. Me too! I am here to tell you it is possible to cut calories without removing all the tasty goodness from your…
