I sent a card to my parents this week after some holy reflections last weekend. They will likely read most of what’s inside the card here at the same time as you before the post office is even able to deliver it. As a loyal blog follower, you are really getting and inside peak behind […]
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Fruit of Your Labor
Today’s wisdom comes to you again from nature… not surprising, right?! The tree is a marvelous structure providing shade, wood, a home to wildlife, sap, and fruit. It has a lot of jobs to complete in its long life, and interestingly it doesn’t do them all at the same time. We can’t utilize its sap […]
Recalibration
You can’t pour from an empty cup. Travis has been home for nearly five months. Time is intangible, it seems like he’s been home for merely weeks and that he never actually left all at the same time. Relationships work really well when you both are able to pour into it rather than need something […]
Worry Less, Live More
It’s 2:00 AM & I snap out of a deep sleep in an instant… Heart racing, sweating, laying on the floor with my feet propped up on the side of the bed attempting to keep from fainting. At just 21 years old. Had the years of an eating disorder finally taken a toll on my […]
Hansel & Gretel
What was your favorite story as a child? Snow White? Cinderella? Jack & Jill? Jack & the Bean Stalk? I was captivated by Hansel & Gretel as a kid although I don’t ever remember asking for the story to be read to me. What I do remember is staring at the illustrations in the book, […]
Take Out the Trash
I tried something new Saturday morning that will give you a good laugh. I love trying new things, don’t you?! As I went through my morning, I randomly got a whiff of a distinct funk here and there. And as the morning passed, the frequency of this funk increased, and the intensity of the funk […]
The Final Lesson
When I arrived to spend the last few days of my Grandma’s life with her, I had one question I so terribly wanted to know. I wanted to ask her when I was with her at Thanksgiving and Christmas but either the timing or my audacity had not aligned. With time drawing near, I knew […]
Grief Reveals You
This isn’t deja vu! If you’re questioning whether you already saw this post…you did see a version of it publish last week. It went rogue, thought it was so important people needed to see it twice, and so here is the final product in all its glory! My grandma, and last surviving grandparent, passed away […]
Second Nature Yet Foreign
Hand in hand, just as we departed ways 11 months earlier, we reconnected. Travis has been home for nearly six weeks! We celebrated our anniversary TOGETHER and shared Christmas with family. Seeing my family reconnect and embrace him was purely bliss! But getting to our family’s reunification was a long and tumultuous path. I never […]
Law of Giving & Receiving
The law of giving and receiving is pretty intuitive as it guides us to be balanced in both giving and receiving. Giving does not make you strong while receiving does not make you weak. Both are necessary to honor the natural rhythms–both your rhythms and the rhythms of others. Think about if you tried to […]