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When you have your cranky pants on
In today’s More Than Small Talk podcast, we discuss how hard it is to disagree with someone we like. Yet there are times the person we are disagreeing with is. . . ourselves. This is an old entry from one of my prayer journals. This is what I wrote on a day when I was...
Other Recent Posts
When God puts an army around you
Twelve weeks. Three months. 90 days, give or take a day. That’s how long ago our world turned upside down. One minute we are planning an anniversary trip. All the details are in place. The littles are beyond excited to be a part. Then on a Thursday...
Doing what matters in the now
What matters most one day tends to get lost in the urgent of today. What if we shifted that to find what matters most now, and where do we begin?
When you don’t know what to say
Have you ever struggled to know what to say? Perhaps a friend is going through a divorce she didn't ask for, or she just received news that she is struggling to comprehend. Maybe she is crushed by medical bills or just lost her job. Several years...
The beauty of battle scars
Richard pulled a T-shirt over his head this morning. As he did, I couldn’t help but look at the pink scar angling down the center of his chest. Our littles are fascinated by it. They have decided such a grand scar needs a tattoo. Maybe a Unicorn...
When it feels like too much
I recently found out that I had cancer. . . again. The very next Monday my husband called me from his car. “Babe, something’s wrong.” He was on the way to the emergency room with pressure and pain in his chest, worse than anything he had ever...
Don’t make your grown kids hate Christmas
Today on More Than Small Talk #podcast, we talked about a hustle-less holiday. I shared that not allowing a tradition to become a must-do is key and releasing perfect pictures to embrace imperfect moments. This is the blog post I shared in the...