It all can look so put together . . .on the outside. A fashionable feed. A nice car. A new house. J. Crewcuts looking kids. What if we all looked a little closer. Behind the sunglasses. Past the surface.

Grace Grace.

Why is easy to give grace to others and not to ourselves?

Yes, forgiveness is a process. I don’t feel the looseness of freedom, after I say “I forgive you.”  Maybe, I will after ten or twenty or seventy times seven. Things […]

Do you ever try to reconcile yourself?

Who you were. Who you’ve become. Who you thought you’d be. Try to make all yourselves consistent with one another.

Today is my day. It’s my first. First day to sit and think and wonder and write out what the ingredients of a new year will be.

The holidays were never hard until they were hard. Christmas was the season where everything felt right.  It was magic when I was little, consistent and comforting in my teens, […]

Last year, I had a picture perfect family photo that never made it to the crisp white card-stock of a Christmas card. I wondered if friends or family thought I might have cut them from my list. I only cut myself loose from some of the holiday “have tos.”

When you find yourself at a stop. A stop is a pause, and in the pause a choice can be made as to which direction we take.

Obviously this world we live in is a broken place full of hurting people.  People that who are fighting for basic needs  (water, food, education, etc), and struggling to just […]

What are days for? Life living….Yes!  But, in this day we live in…. they are meant for cramming and jamming with this and that.  They are for getting things done […]