I'm reading (among other things...y'all know how I roll) Everyday Holy by Melanie Shankle. It's so good! It contains 100 devotions (in 222 pages so do the math. It fits into your day.) Today she tied into the Israelites leaving Egypt and how God could have taken them straight there to Canaan but then the… Continue reading In the middle
Tag: Random thoughts
Still learning
It's funny. I've reflected a lot over the last week and a half, probably because I haven't had a lot else to do, thankfully. Unfortunately tomorrow signifies the official end of vacation mode. Hopefully work is kind. I've thought a lot about everything that has happened over the last year. As you know, because I've… Continue reading Still learning
2 steps forward…
I feel like in so many areas lately it's been two steps forward, 5 steps back. Are we really losing ground here? In reality, we are not going backwards, but just encountering some tests. Do you really have the ability to just keep breathing? Breathing in the good and out the bad? Can you avoid… Continue reading 2 steps forward…
What is success?
I was recently at my community group and we do some ice breaker questions sometimes. I got this one: "what is success?" Well, that should probably be easy, right. I mean you can go with the dictionary definition of success or what success means to you or any number of answers. Besides there are no… Continue reading What is success?
Embrace this crazy thing
If you're following my House saga, I finally picked one to see. I was determined to fall in love with it because I don't want to be spending my life looking at houses. It had a blue door. And it's now pending sale, not to me. So tomorrow I start the adulting part of buying… Continue reading Embrace this crazy thing
Don’t get on the bus
This is likely going to be a short story, I mean as short as any of them are. It's after midnight and tomorrow we must return to life, but I feel like this story bears telling so... Today we were riding around on the boat (which, sidebar, is amazing and something I highly recommend) and… Continue reading Don’t get on the bus
Still breathing
I'm going to be honest (I mean I have always been here on this blog), 99% of the time I feel like I'm not good enough. There is that random 1% where I do something that I'm like yay! Go me! But in general, that's not the case. Because of my personality, that means my… Continue reading Still breathing
Just breathe
I've literally been watching bugs for the last little bit. I am being 100% literal. I watched a spider do his thing for a little bit. An ant was all about going somewhere and then came back. Then there was a bee. He flew around and was precariously close at one point, but I'm in… Continue reading Just breathe
The lake
It's funny. Last Sunday's church service was about taking a pause. Living in the margins and all of that. And today...I'm at the lake. I've wanted to go to the lake for a while. There was a point recently where if I could have figured out the feasibility of it I might have moved to… Continue reading The lake
Hope for the season
Something amazing started happening last night. As I left work I noticed it was different. The air had that feel. It wasn't oppressive. It was crisp, slightly cool, it was the beginning of fall. For this wounded heart, it was a gift. It was the bow on top of a present from God. It's like… Continue reading Hope for the season
This Season.... 