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Ranting and Resting
Dear Friends, I really want to share the following blog with you all not because it is so well-written or anything, but because I believe that it’s where so many of us, particularly single parents, find ourselves sometimes. It isn’t pretty at first, but God, as usual, used my time typing on these keys to…
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Single Parenting by THE BOOK
Recently a sweet friend gave me a parenting book. Thankfully I’m at a good place to receive it…I know I’m in over my head! Single parenting five children is daunting, difficult, and downright exhausting. There was a time when I’d have been appalled that someone thought I might need any professional assistance with my parenting. …
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Little Boxes…annoying little boxes
Recently it seems I have had to fill out a ridiculous number of forms that all require me to write down my status…single, married, divorced, widowed… It’s amazing how much I want to deny my actual status. Who would have thought I’d ever wish I could check any box but divorced? Just being honest. I…
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Unexpected
Were you ever certain that God was asking you to do something that seemed completely ridiculous and a bit unexpected? That is probably a “duh” questions to some degree. God seems to always be asking us to do challenging things – I might even say bizarre by the world’s standard things. Yesterday I sat at…
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My Two-by-Four (P.S. It has a happy ending)
Recently I’ve been struck, like a two-by-four, by the loss of dreams. It seems we all have lost dreams. I’ve lost some dreams that I thought were givens. The biggest being my “til death do us part” marriage. Lately my dream of a happily ever after seems a bit out of reach as well. I’ve realized…
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