I found a journal entry when I wrote about the ISIS crisis back in 2015 and how heavy the entire situation was on me and my young family. The thought of welcoming potential ISIS threats openly into our country had been the source of most of my anxiety as a new mom. Five years later…
I looked at my husband after we put the children down for bed and said, “I feel like we have hardly talked all day.” He responded, “I know, babe, but when would we have been able to?” He was right. We played back the events from the day and were alarmed at how demanding our…
COVID-19 – Physically Dangerous or Spiritually Binding? I am interrupting the flow of my blog topics to address something that needs to be addressed from the perspective of our King Jesus… the Coronavirus. I decided to take a trip to Walgreens last night on my way home. All I wanted to buy was a couple…
Late last night, my husband and I grabbed our dinner and headed to the living room where we usually watch an episode of The Office while we eat. However, instead of watching The Office, we decided to turn on the news and fill our minds with the latest and greatest updates on the coronavirus. We…
For those of you who may be unaware, I am fasting completely from social media platforms for the full 2020 year. How has it been so far? Well, let me just tell you. When I first entertained the idea of removing myself entirely from social media, I lightheartedly told myself I would never make it…
“If we put X amount of money in our Roth IRA each month, do you know how much money we’d make by the time we retire?!” I nodded, exchanging the excitement with my investing-loving friends. “We’ve also thought about investing money into rental properties and eventually land. There are so many ways to invest your…
How would you like to be called the “cheater”, the “underminer”, or the “deceiver”? For Jacob, this was his every day identity. In Genesis 25, we read about two babies, twins, born from Rebekah, Isaac’s wife. Esau, the firstborn emerged with his brother, Jacob, grasping his heel in a moment that would define Jacob’s life…
Like most children, I had to learn to weigh the consequences of my actions. However, I also had to learn to weigh the consequences of others’ reactions, too. In other words, the way I talked, walked, and lived played a part in whether or not my day would be peaceful and without conflict. Through much…
Let’s face it. Life is hard. Life is painful. Life is unpredictable, and, well, hard. Our faith gets rocked and stretched, the condition of our heart is exposed, and we are eager to place blame on anyone or everyone. If we have been walking closely with God for a few months, even years, most of…
There has been inconvenient construction on one of our main highway roads for over a year. When I say inconvenient, I literally mean one slight flick of the wrist in the wrong direction while your hands are on the steering wheel will result in a deadly crash to the cement blocks separating your road from…
There are over 400,000 children in the Foster Care System in the United States. I am a mentor to one. There are 14 million children in the United States. I feed and care for two. There are approximately 554,000 homeless people living somewhere in the United States. I have helped less than 10 so far…
I used to wonder what it would be like to be a kid again—enjoying the carefree mentality, playing all the time, having food prepared for you, and living in the simple joys of existing… until I had kids and became a stay at home mom. In a crazy way, my desire to be a joyful…
Entertaining Angels
To paint the picture for you, here I am, almost seven months pregnant, headed to Kroger to pick up milk and dinner. My shirt is actually my husband’s T-shirt that I don’t realize at the time is leaving two inches of my pregnant belly exposed at the bottom. My hair is in a messy bun,…
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