I need a Year of Jubilee
I need a Year of Jubilee. How about you? What is a Year of Jubilee, you ask? Think of a Mardi Gras celebration that covers the entire nation for an entire year. Now take away the sex, booze, and parades. Add in a whole lot of forgiveness. That’s the Year of Jubilee. In the Old
Getting what we want
I can remember my anger like it was yesterday. It happened 29 years ago, and yet I can still see myself yelling, stomping and slamming a bedroom door. I was a junior in high school and a boy invited me to visit him at his college two hours from our hometown. We weren’t dating. We
If you are still, they will come
When my kids were little, they always wanted to talk to me while I was in the bathroom. In the shower or on the throne, it seemed their most pressing questions came when I was a bit indisposed. These days, I’d live in the bathroom if it meant my kids would voluntarily come talk to
Look for the joy in today
I’ve talked a lot about my mom over the last ten years. The falling apart and the coming together and what God can do to mend fences, and the way he changes my rotten wood attitude before he hammers in that first nail. This weekend, I got to visit my dad. Five years ago, my
Just keep trying
I am on the struggle bus lately when it comes to food. I’ve been doing all the right things – keeping a food journal, cutting up the veggies as soon as they enter the house, buying bigger underwear. I even started going to a dietician because I wanted advice on how to properly feed my
Hope for the wait
Any day now, I am certain the producers of Wheel of Fortune will be calling. I’m so certain that I continue to hone my skills by solving puzzles on their game show app. If you see me looking at my phone, I’m not on Instagram, I’m on “The Wheel”. There is one puzzle though, I
I am who you say I am
I was playing pickleball this morning when I heard someone on another court say, “She’s the coach’s wife.” A quick glance confirmed I was the only coach’s wife in the vicinity so I yelled across three courts, “I can hear you!” I just wanted to make sure they knew their voices were carrying before they
