There are a million truths for every lie. So speak out loud and let it lift high. There are a million reasons to cover your eyes. But the Light is Shining through the darkness we hide. So come, Let it Shine. -All Sons and Daughters When the lies threaten our peace. Cause us to to stay awake at night. We must speak truth to our heart. Truth will not be anxiety-filled. Truth will not be filled with dread and doom. Truth…
Can I remind you of something: Mundane doesn’t mean unimportant. Sometimes a hard life is just an ordinary one. The ordinary is where our faith is lived out. “It does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint – to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is inbred of us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have…
What I’ve learned this birthday weekend…. First, Pinterest is always telling me how much I’ve failed. If I’m comparing myself to Pinterest, I’ll always fall short. I made a Monopoly cake based on a Pinterest idea I found, but I kept comparing mine to the original. No one saw the original. It wasn’t about that anyway. My son’s response: “I don’t like it mom, I LOVE it!” Success. Not a failure. And he did see the original. Second, I felt…
The conversation at the dinner table was heading in a crazy-talk spiral. I mean, when we start discussing nonsense I can just feel my brain cells dying. Literally, as I’m eating my cold pasta, I feel them burn away into oblivion. Listening to their conversation, slowly feeding the baby, it hits me hard. Some days I feel snappy and frustrated at the mundane. I am distant and irritable. Sometimes it creeps in slow, making its way into my heart and stays…