Have you noticed how size can seem relative? When the kids are loud and running through the house, my house feels small. But when the house needs cleaning, it feels big. Really big. Too big for me to handle on my own. Sometimes, when I look around at our mess, the scale of it overwhelms …
Journey Through the Psalms
Taste that God is Good
We are a family of sweet tooth's. Sugary cereals live in my pantry because my husband helps with grocery shopping (so do the kids) and it seems like a reasonable trade off. We have pop in our house on the weekend, and family movie night wouldn’t be complete without popcorn and licorice. The kids’ …
Watching the Highlights
The premise of a movie released a number of years ago intrigues me. One of the main characters is in an accident and looses her short term memory. From that point on, she can remember everything that happened before the accident, but nothing that happens after. She wakes up every morning believing …
#Blessed – Psalm 1 & 2
For some reason I get a kick out of making up ridiculous hashtags. Sometimes I actually post them for a bit of ironic fun, and sometimes I just laugh over them to myself privately while receiving strange looks. Other times, I read hashtags that don’t sit well with me, because if they’re intended to …
Keeping it Real?
A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning my house (no, I’m not writing to announce an infrequent event . . .) and my mood was dirtier than the house. As I worked, I enjoyed the monologue I kept running in my head. I entertained myself by calling out those individuals who’d contributed to the mess I was …