This year has started out a lot differently than I expected.A lot less skiing.A lot more kleenex. Allow me to explain… In the first week of January, I lost my Grandfather. And the following week, I came down with a severe cold turned sinus infection that I am still not fully recovered from. For most …
My Top Poems and Posts of 2022.
Snow is falling outside my window, “Way Maker” by Leeland is playing from my speaker, the wax melter my sister bought me for Christmas is filling my apartment with a lovely pine scent and I just finished an americano I made with the espresso machine my husband gifted me. In this moment, I am at …
Where Christmas Joy is Found.
World is quiet, holding her breath as the clouds begin to form-twisting and twirling the flakes dance down,in this winters first snow storm.Hearts fill with wonder, heads lift to heaven, the brown earth begins to turn white-we laugh and we smile for once again-all is calm and all is bright. The first snowfall. It doesn’t …
Watching and Waiting.
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour of the Son of Man’s coming.” -Matthew 25:13 I’ll never forget the first time my sister Bekah came home from college. Her flight landed late at night and the airport was over an hour away from our house so my parents went …
Be Kind to Yourself.
Have you ever been so weak, so burdened, so overwhelmed- that you almost feel frozen by your own emotions? Frozen as in hindered, constrained, restricted, inept.Incapable of high performance, or any performance, on constant alert and yet unable to react, worried, stressed, on edge, distracted…. It takes all your strength just to get out of …