When life gets overwhelming, do you ever feel like you might suffocate under everything you need to do? Does worry ever weave it’s way into your heart and consume your thoughts with concern? If I’m not careful, worry can wear me out and make me want to quit… just about everything! A few years ago, I took my husband’s advice to write down everything on […]
While You Are Sleeping
Startled by the silence, I sat up in bed so I could see the neon red lights that told me it was three in the morning, time to feed the baby. But Andrew hadn’t made a sound. Was something wrong? Or was he sleeping through the night? Wavering between panic and joy, I felt […]
A Christmas Prayer
Merry Christmas Eve friend! I don’t know how your plans are going but I wanted to encourage you with something I wrote for Proverbs 31 Ministries today and share a Christmas prayer I post each year, in hopes that it will calm and connect your heart with Jesus, the way it does for me each […]
A Perfectly Imperfect Christmas
“Maybe this will be the year everything goes as planned, and we’ll have the perfect Christmas.” I thought. Perfect is what I’d always wanted for Christmas, but in all my years of living I have never been able to pull it off. Perfect looks like peace on earth and in my home for twenty-four hours. […]
How to Become A Confident Mom: Turning Self-Defeat Into Self-Awareness
I remember the day I hit rock bottom as a mom. Tired of struggling with comparison, self-defeat, and my cruel inner critic, I desperately wanted and needed things to change. But I didn’t know what changes were needed until I got brave enough to ask Jesus to show me. I started asking Him to help […]