Month: August 2023
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Embrace Your Story
In the last 20 years of my life I came to the point where I can’t stand generic romance or love stories that are unrealistic fluffy love stories. I guess I’ve become too cynical after seeing the challenges in relationships, my own and those around me. What appeals to me more are stories about real…
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Quality not Quantity
I heard something interesting recently. About our children and how they are being raised in a day where they are constantly seen and recorded. So many pictures taken by themselves and by others. This kind of constant observation can lead to the idea that you have to be perfect or always appear on just right.…
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It’s Scriptural
While reading scripture tonight I discovered something that was honestly refreshing to me. Perhaps you’re like me and not all your thoughts are always positive or uplifting. Maybe you see that success seems to come easy to others who get ahead through underhanded means, and you feel like things just aren’t fair. Maybe you’ve made…
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Starting Over (I wrote this several years ago)
Recently I have been struggling. As I’m going through the process of divorce, and it is a process because it does not happen overnight. Neither was the cause an immediate thing. I am surrounded by death, I am at an ending, a graveside. This death of a marriage is something I have been grieving. Like others…
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Hurt
I remember when I was a girl, and I would get hurt. I would run to my mother and ask her to make it all better. Such a simple thing. And somehow even though she didn’t magically heal the wound just getting a hug and a Band-Aid somehow made it all seem better. I’m definitely…
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Enduring Grace
Plumb sings a song that says “How many times have you heard me cry out “God Please Take This”, How many times have you given me strength to just keep breathing, God I need you, God I need you now.” Have you ever felt the same? If I am being honest I have as well. Even Paul…
Devotions For Real Life 