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A couple of weekends ago, we visited some friends out of town.  While we were there, we were able to experience two different groups of married couples.  Each group was…well, it’s hard to explain, it was unlike anything Steven and I had really encountered before.  It was a group of people from different churches, all [...]

Psalm 5
1 O Lord, hear me as I pray;
pay attention to my groaning.
2 Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
for I pray to no one but you.
3 Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord.
Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.
4 O God, you take no pleasure [...]

I write this blog for a variety of reasons, and what I choose to or not to write…I also choose for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes I write things just for the sake of remembering them.
Sometimes I write so I can analyze my thoughts.
Sometimes I write, hoping for input.
Sometimes I write just to know I’m not [...]

These last couple of posts have been difficult for me.  I procrastinate, putting them off, hoping I’ll feel better the next day and therefore have no need to write them.  Then, I realize I don’t…and won’t.  This is real.  Too real.
In May of this year, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.  And… I [...]

As I keep reading through this book (Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge), I’m amazed by the messages that seem to hit so close to home for me…
“As women we tend to feel that ‘it must be me.’  That’s the effect of our early wounds.  ‘Something is fundamentally wrong with me.’  So many women feel [...]

I was reading something a friend wrote the other day - about their desire to meet and know truly WHOLE people, people who would need nothing from them or anyone else.
It took me a while to digest that statement. Is there really such a thing as a WHOLE person - a person who doesn’t [...]