Daily 511

So many people use up every ounce of energy they have every single day just to make it through another day and do all the things those of us privileged with healthy bodies and minds do without thinking. Don't make the mistake of thinking your healthy body and mind are because you have done anything better than someone else. If you have a healthy body and mind and lots of energy, 90% of that is luck and good genes (despite what we like to think). Don't consider yourself better than anyone else. Consider yourself lucky, blessed. Understand that many people who survive another day do so with an exceeding amount of strength and courage. I have lived through seasons of vibrant health and seasons of struggles with my body and mind. I have had fierce battles with despression, anxiety and chronic fatigue. No one looking at me would have any idea of the battles I was fighting inside. I have felt judged by strangers, close friends and even family during these fighting seaso...

    Everyone loves a happy ending.  Especially when God swoops down and performs a miracle.  The child suddenly cured of cancer? Praise God!  The father healed from addiction?  Praise God!  I will praise Him right along with you.  Our God is mighty.  But sometimes, even when we are down on our knees begging God for a miracle, God says No.   As often as God says Yes in the bible (healing the Leper, raising Lazarus from the dead)  He just as often says No ( Job anyone?).  We don’t like the stories where God says no.  They don’t sell many books or make for a great movie.  It’s human nature to want the happy ending.      I was reading a wonderful post today about a woman whose husband beat 10 years of addiction by giving his addiction over to God.  I love those stories.  We need those stories of perseverance and hope.  Their happy ending was the miracle I had prayed fo...

About a year ago, I felt the need to have a unified mission statement of some sort for my life. If you're a wife, mom, daughter, homemaker or have a career, it can sometimes feel like we have all these separate roles or compartments we live in with nothing to unify the part into a whole. Earlier this year, my youngest son left for college and I eagerly (with the occasional shed tear!) anticipated more free time to pursue hobbies and passions. I have a lot of interests: reading, writing, humor blogging, an Etsy business, faith and religion, motherhood, home décor...the list seems to get longer the older I get! This diverse list of interests left me feeling... scattered. As a follower of Christ, I know what direction I'm heading and the values that guide me, but I felt I needed to write down something, perhaps a mission statement of some sort, as a unifying, more specific mission for all the various roles and activities of my life. After several months of trying out var...