Tag: jesus
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From Pain to Purpose
She sits across from me – at a sushi restaurant, a coffee shop, in a living room. We tell each other stories – about our kids, our travels, our days. We laugh…until we don’t. Her face and tone change. She opens up about the abuse or the assault years ago – at the hands of…
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Love Others
“You are still in there somewhere,” my counselor recently said to me. “We just have to dig deeper to find you.” In this season of transition, I admitted to feeling a little lost. What I used to be (homeschool mom) is no longer what I will be in the very near future. It is disconcerting…
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This Imperfect Life
We live in a broken world. I think I established the bleakness of our situation in my last post, so I won’t be going there again today. Jesus told us that in this broken world we would have trouble. He didn’t tell us not to worry because he would fix everything to our satisfaction. He…
Wisdom from the Trenches 