Category: modern life
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Not liable
Jesus thank You for c-a-r-e- ing about my MS and my heart problems and my mental illness and my parenting failures. I want You.d-e-s-p-e-r-a-t-e-ly It helps that my life is so difficult for me. I’m not tempted to be satisfied with it. If I was Effortlessly beautiful and Incredibly popular and Eminently successful and had […]
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Boot camp for my brain
I opened my Youversion app to read the Bible today.So sad and beleaguered, you guys! Rough, loooong night with health stuff. I tend to get suicidal when my MS is acting up, so I go to the Bible extra hardcore at those times. Even before I start to think in the morning. Knee jerk I’m […]
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Self-soothe: an important skill
The prodigal welcome. This feels too good to be true for me. I learned to expect painful treatment, as a kid, if I ever FINALLY penetrated through my parents’ constant miasma of negative self talk about stuff that I needed. Like a hug or a sweater or a quiet space or kind words. Not that […]
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Put it in my pipe and 🚬 it
Inconvenience: “that people of different ages and different types do not all acknowledge the same standard, and we hardly know where we are.
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Play to your weaknesses
God never wastes a hurt, right? I want to blog about putting my child in a mental hospital when she was nine. Ummmm… Big mistake Not what I thought. Not What my counselor thought. we thought it would be a safe place to get her started on meds and stabilized. Safe, it was NOT. […]
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Choose
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. II […]
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Things to love
The sound of an air plane buzzing in the distance Smell of baking bread Homemade tacos, any kind Fortune cookies after Chinese food My husband’s bald head and friendly smile Shakespeare and Hathaway, on BBC Celery, english toffee, dry fall leaves, corn chips, dry snow…crunchy things Cups of fragrant, steaming tea The smell of new […]
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Rubber meets road
Autoimmune disease PTSD Difficult marriage Dysfunctional family 12 steps Disabled veteran Homeschooling mom Oneincome in a twoincome economy Abuse Abandonment Church hurts Just remindin’ myself.
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shame buster
Father I feel weak today.I feel like a bad mom, bad friend, bad human.Teach meFill meHelp me To fight. I need You.I can’t do this thing without You.I love You.You’re my one thing.
reboot my ❤ 