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Tag: Love

  • Me Again :)

    Me Again 🙂 I just found out that Sonoma Christian Home website posted one of my articles!  Single Parent Swim!  I hope you enjoy it! 

  • Loving the Unlovable…Seriously Unlovable

    A few weeks ago I posted about being done.   These past several weeks have been a bit difficult with regard to my attitude about my ex-husband.  I forgave him 3 years ago, but sometimes I still get annoyed with him.  Sometimes I just want him to be nice. And sometimes I want him to just…

  • Prayer and My Best Friend

    I’ve been wanting to write about prayer for several days now. Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer and I didn’t realize it until I checked Facebook. I love it when a plan comes together! Prayer. There is something about that word…it’s peaceful to me. It’s like a sigh. My prayers have been many things…

  • My Peace Symbol

    Peace. That peace symbol is all over the place.  I see it on everything.  It’s difficult to avoid sometimes.  I don’t particularly care for it to be honest.  It doesn’t really speak peace to me. It reminds me more of a time when there wasn’t peace…when people stood less for true peace and more for…

  • Anyone Else Feel Done?

    Today I feel done. I am done. Done with disrespect and disobedience and difficulties. Done with trying to reason with teenagers. Done with trying to reign in kindergarteners. Done with trying to make decisions. Done with trying to get organized. Done with cleaning up the mess my ex-husband has made.  Done with trying to understand…

  • Joyfully Enduring

    Endurance:  n. 1. The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress.  2.  The state or fact of persevering: continuing survival. This past weekend I was blessed to hear a sermon about endurance. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take notes because I’d left my purse, Bible and notebook in the car in my mad…

  • Repeat Offender…Me

    Isn’t it just the way…when you start talking a lot about something, it becomes something big in your life?  Even if it already was a big thing. I’ve been really blessed to share a lot about my story lately.  And a big part of my story is forgiveness.  I can’t overemphasis its importance in my…

  • Not the List I Wanted to Make

    I’ve been feeling all twisted up in knots.  If I could attach a video (which I probably can but honestly the thought of trying to figure out how and trying to look good enough in it kinda twists me up in more knots) you’d see me waving my hands all over the place to symbolize…

  • My Newest MomLife Today post!

    My Newest MomLife Today post! This month at www.MomLifeToday.com we are dealing with that age-old mommy problem – anger.  Mom’s March MADness!  I know that I struggle with this…it’s so easy to get overwhelmed and feel frustrated.  There are days when fire and smoke spew from my ears and words I’d rather keep to myself spill…

  • Struggling with Struggle

    Struggle I think I use that word too much.  I think I should use a different word more often. Maybe…conquering.  Don’t feel much like a conqueror.  And yet, God tells me I am.  “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”  Romans 9:37  More?  More than conquerors?  Mind-boggling. …