2/13/2024
What even is motherculture?
11/1/2023
Don't play dumb to make someone else feel smart-that's manipulation. Love doesn't manipulate, love doesn't shame, love doesn't even have to be reciprocated to be kind. Love isn't a doormat to walk on others or to be walked upon. Love is kind,exceedingly kind.
If you get that right, many other areas of your life will-
9/25/2023
In our day to day, especially when we feel the busyness of daily life, it’s easy to feel pressured. Pressures of to do lists, meals to prepare, sippy cups to fill, and spills to wipe.
We pour over our people until our own cups feel dry.
And in those moments of tired, we can revert to feelings of empty. And this is where it happens, weary digs deep and our feelings try to get the final say.
Yes, we love our people, but our mouths stop speaking life to them. Yes, we adore our wild blessings, but we start parenting from our feelings instead.
Love, if given the chance to sit at your table, would say this…𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱, 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱. You get that right and many other things will unfold unforced into place.
8/14/2023
While I adore a beautiful decorated space, I lean more practical because of the season of life we are in. My decorating style(𝗈𝗋 𝗐𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝖨 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖼𝖾𝗂𝗏𝖾𝖽 𝖺𝗌 𝗅𝖺𝖼𝗄 𝗈𝖿 𝗌𝗍𝗒𝗅𝖾) didn’t seem to fit traditional or modern, minimalist or maximalist.
8/12/2023
The calling on your life will not be the exact opposite to the calling on your spouse’s.
God is not an author of confusion.
8/11/2023
“Drink deeply from the well of Truth, for that is where your soul thirst will be quenched.”
8/7/2023
I find myself spending time with lists lately, small ways to remember and double check all the things. Like, maybe these lists will keep time and prevent the losing of time or that maybe they’ll help me not miss these not to be missed moments. And what I’ve found is the best way to not miss moments is often to lay the lists down and look up.
7/20/2023
7/19/2023
I explored the road less traveled & it made the difference.
6/30/2023
Sit at the table with yourself long enough to be okay with being human, imperfect, flawed. Then start welcoming these women to your table:…
6/2/2023
Still over here pulling wisteria-it’s beautiful indeed, yet horribly invasive. I’ve resided that part of the yearly tending will just require yearly culling this invasive vine. It covers, smothers-a predator to native plantings-
6/1/2023
I find it ironic how we try to measure sin for God. We think we understand the gravity of sin more than our omniscient God does. Our human minds try to give sins levels of shame, piling guilt higher than we believe Jesus Christ has already covered.
We question if God can “𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦” our humanity, our wrongs. When we do this-whether we realize it, whether we intend to-we are trying to minimize God, to limit His presence, power, perfection. In essence, we are trying to push God away, hold Him past arms length, even trying to avoid facing how genuinely incomplete we are without His Holy Spirit in our soul. We are avoiding repentance, confession, communion, holy wholeness.
Maybe it’s guilt. Maybe it’s shame.
Maybe it’s just our human brains just cannot wrap our head around the fullness of holy, how we’ll never be able to earn the limitless grace we’ve been gifted.
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴; 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦. -𝖱𝗈𝗆𝖺𝗇𝗌 𝟣𝟣:𝟨
5/31/2023
I pondered…is hope an optimist? A pessimist? Maybe both?
I concluded that optimism and pessimism are of this world. They usher polarization, a spotlight that we are in the world, not of it.
Hope comes from beyond-a buoyancy, not a boundary.
And hope is good.
5/18/2023
We live in a world that low base teaches us that the loudest, most aggressive woman wins. Paired with church messages of a Proverbs 31 wife standard of perfectionism, you end up with a world of women feeling weary, worn, less than, defeated.
I’ve wondered if the “real” Proverbs 31 wife would shake her head-
5/17/2023
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and believes that God is always able.
5/15/2023
He was two weeks old when we knew he’d be our outdoorsy kiddo. Warm autumn breezes are his favorite. Even as an infant, he’d look up at his mama & smile, relax & close his eyes with chin lifted to the sun. He’s our rainbow baby, the unexpected blessing we didn’t see coming.
But, summer heat storms used to…
5/13/2023
Lucky and blessed are not the same thing. What some people call luck might better be called an unexpected-𝖻𝗎𝗍 𝗐𝖾𝗅𝖼𝗈𝗆𝖾𝖽-blessing.
Instead of loving the things you want, look around & start loving what you have. I promise and pinky swear, it’ll change your life.
5/12/2023
When hugging your children, don’t be the first one to let go. They’ll let go when they are ready-be sensitive to what they are sharing.
Sometimes they start hugging back tighter, because that’s what their hearts are needing.
4/23/2023
I read a quote once that said (𝗉𝖺𝗋𝖺𝗉𝗁𝗋𝖺𝗌𝖾𝖽), 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. The quote is a play on words from a translated Confucius quote, a thought provocation on how you view yourself, the nuts and bolts and worth you believe you hold in the core of who you are.
I counter it with this: 𝖶𝖧𝖮 𝖣𝖮𝖤𝖲 𝖦𝖮𝖣 𝖲𝖠𝖸 𝖸𝖮𝖴 𝖠𝖱𝖤? Deep down, what message do you speak over yourself about your identity in Christ?
4/1/2023
There’s this space between what is and what will be-a pause, gap, breath, selah, Yahweh. A bridge called grace waits with open arms.
It can feel like waiting, a gap that divides.