MENTAL HEALTH
You aren’t alone. You matter. You aren’t the only one. There really is hope for a future. Let’s carve out space for your mind to breathe.
Spiritual Goals
...make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess...
It’s A Big Deal
image via It's December 17th. Christmas is still more than a week {okay, eight days} away. But every year shortly after December hits the calender the holiday starts closing in. Slow at first. A party here, cookies there. Then things become faster and more...
Bad Apples
Yesterday we talked about bearing good spiritual fruit. Today I'm talking about bad apples. Originally this had all been one long post about the good and the bad, but I decided it was best to split it up. If you are hating the discussion of fruit, don't worry,...
Good Fruit
{click image for source} I've been thinking about fruit. Maybe because the weather has taken taken on those cool, fall overtones and I'm craving apples and all things made from apples {cider, pie, turn overs, crisp...} But as I think about fruit it's hard for me not...
Cultivating Contentment
{image via} I feel like I hear the same sentiment all the time. I have felt it, and you probably have too. I feel like it's especially prevalent among the millennial generation. Our post high school years were filled with computers, technology and recession. Jobs were...
People Pleasing
"We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts." --1 Thessalonians 1:4b It's so very easy to get caught up in the people pleasing game. Especially if you are a yesser like me. You know, the kind of person who says "yes" to just about...
Rippling
image via Those of you who have worked with me or close to me {especially in my early self-employment years} know that I'm not opposed to taking unusual payment. I guess in that sense I'm very old fashioned. The kind of girl who could accept a dozen eggs for an hour...
Lead.
Last week I wrote about how we, as Christians are called to be different. Originally I was going to combine that premise to what I'm writing about now--leadership. Image Via But as I started, it all got too long and fuzzy. So I decided to sit on this one for...
Different. Not Lame.
It's almost cliche to say that as Christians we are called to be different. It's something I grew up hearing, it's something I've said. And it's true. It's a salve we put on wounds and aches when our peers poke fun at us for not drinking at the party, or...
Doors and Windows
It's been a while since I've given you an update on my back situation. {You can see the beginning of the ordeal here.} So I'll be quick. I really don't like to dwell, or complain, or belly ache about my circumstances. I hope you don't see this post as any of that....
Working Wife
Sometimes sermons haunt me. No matter what I do, I just can't stop thinking about what was said in church on Sunday. Sometimes it's a thought provoking--new knowledge of a well known passage. Other times it's convicting. Still other times it can be something else...
The Longer Road
I know you remember Lindsay from Friday's Art of Living post. If you missed it, you should read that first, here. In addition to being a wonderful woman of God with a heart built for service and an attitude that waits upon the Lord...she is also a very gifted...
