Lord, you know where my heart is this season. The healing you’ve done in me is tremendous and yet I still ache for what once was. My mind escapes to those childhood Christmases when my family was together. Those times when my Dad took us to pick out that real Christmas tree. When I would get […]
Angry Enough to Refuse Unfair Circumstances {Voice Study Wk. 3}
Have you ever had something painful happen, and you fell silent about it? Maybe someone did something to you and it was unfair and it hurt and it maybe even caused you to question God, but you said nothing? Maybe you grew angry. And angrier. And the anger filtered into places it should have never […]
Thursdays with the Voice-Bloggers
Each Thursday I’m honored to host an amazing group of women who gather in our online community to share their voices, to share their passion for you finding your voice. Together we walk through the book, When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference, and we join […]
5 Things I’ve Learned About Community
The devastating pain didn’t come from a distant place. Someone made a decision that was out of your control and you suffered more than you ever thought possible. Maybe your husband had an affair and left your marriage. Maybe you lost a friendship over hurtful words and confused feelings. It’s difficult, right? To face tragedy […]
Where is Your Safe Place {Voice Study, Wk. 2}
Where is your safe place? Where {or to whom} do you turn when you are hurting? That’s what we’re talking about this week on our online study, When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference. We’re slowly bringing our pain into focus through the lens of community, […]
Thursdays with the Voice-Bloggers
For the next ten weeks, we are walking through the book When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make A Difference in our online book study. And each Thursday, we will gather here to share our voices around that week’s topic, this week our first gathering. We’d love to have you […]
Stress in the Season
I turned our van on this past Saturday morning and Christmas music blared through the speakers. I couldn’t believe it. “It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!” yelled my six-year-old daughter. My sons ranted along with her and as Jingle Bells played I felt an uneasiness well up inside me. Does that ever happen to you? You’re […]
Online Study: Week One {When A Woman Finds Her Voice}
What a beautiful time of heart-connecting last week! For those of you just finding us, don’t worry, you aren’t behind. Last week was simply the opportunity to say “hello” and connect. And wow, what a bunch of you beautiful women made your way to our new gathering place; what an honor to be with you! […]
Me Too
Those times when life’s not working out like we thought it should—it creates a unique stress, no? A twisting of the heart and mind that holds a false sense of power over our choices. A crushing loss of hope that comes when we feel this hard may never end, the one that drives us […]
Giving Thanks for the Pain
“I’m grateful my husband was an alcoholic. It’s taught us both about how to appreciate the normal things in life. ” I listened to the woman beside me speak at a local Al-anon meeting. How in the world can a woman be thankful for her husband’s addiction? I had just walked one of the most difficult […]