31 Days {Worth}

{Worth}   My invisible box of things of worth….. The love between my husband and I. We celebrated ten years of marriage. Twelve years of being together. The love I have for him has grown and deepen in ways I didn’t know possible. The love we share is worth a lot in in my invisible treasure box. It’s amazing how your heart expands when you have children. You think you will have to divided your love between them all. Intead, the…

When There Is Too Much Pain in the World

Cancer. Death. Sickness. No answer. More waiting. Surgeries. Heartache of a magnitude my soul had never felt. The news was divesting. Babies dissected alive. Families torn apart. When there is too much pain in the world, how do you look beyond yourself and DO something about it? You can’t enter into the grief of ALL the people in the world…..but there are people in your life who are hurting and need your comfort. I’m not sure what possessed me to pick up the book Rare…

5 Steps to Finding (and Keeping) Friendships

Being a mom sometimes means you give up some things.  Taking showers. Putting on real clothes. Make-up.  Some days it just doesn’t happen.  It might be 2:00 before I hop into the steamy quiet.  As mothers, we give up fitting into those jeans from college. We forgo reading a good book.  Our neat and tidy house is long gone.  One thing that should not be abandoned when you become a mother is friendships. We all know we need community. Let’s be honest….