• Monday Morning Blues {3}

    Grab your coffee for five minutes. Here are some thoughts to help you get over your Monday Morning Blues. You did it again. That sin you swore you would never do. Again. That one little big thing you’ve confessed before. Exactly 1,809,567 times. The temptation came and you gave in. Before you even had a chance to make the choice. Again. Now, it is a new week and you want to do better. You vow to do better. But then you…

  • Monday Morning Blues {2}

    Grab your coffee for five minutes. Here are some thoughts to help you get over your Monday Morning Blues.  I look at my to-do list. Is it bad that I have to write everything on two pages? I stare at the list and realize: “I don’t want to do any of this.” Deep within me I sigh a huge exhausted sigh. I reach for my extra large coffee mug. The flowery cup is chipped in a couple of places. I remember falling…

  • Monday Morning Blues {1}

    Grab your coffee for five minutes. Here are some thoughts to help get over your Monday Morning Blues. Proverbs 12:25 – Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad. A good word. How are you using your words today? Are the words you speak carefully spoken? Or, like me, do you seem to hurl those words around like they mean nothing. Our words are powerful. Not our sentences.  Not our lectures. Our words. I love you. You mean so…

  • 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….