Sharpeners are to be treasured, because not everyone will linger long enough to see your life, observe the beauty and recognize the vulnerabilities and gaps, and ALSO be willing to show them to you.
Relationships
Friendships With Fortitude
If you could put together a list of your deepest longings for friendship, what would you include? If people are eternal, then they’re immeasurably valuable. So let’s linger here, because it’s worthy.
Multum Non Multa and Moms
Before I took a break from blogging a few years ago, I announced that I would be taking the summer off of public writing to embrace “Festina Lente,” (Latin for “make haste slowly”). My plan was to strategize the next season of writing, because I love it here. And...
Married to a 7 — 7 Things to Know
Marriage is always a ride. Always. There’s a good reason why we stand, love-struck, before an altar and say some things about sticking together in the face of every extreme possibility. But for those of us married to enneagram 7’s… well, it sure does seem like the...
Unexpected Unity
I saw unity once in a place that surprised me. And I think we were made for this… that it’s possible. And it’s all about what summit we’re climbing toward.
Reaching the Summit and 50 Shades of Grey
How ambitious are you for the greatest kind of love? Valentine’s Day shared it’s glory with opening weekend of 50 Shades of Grey, inspired by a series reputed to be shockingly erotic — and currently has millions of people in an uproar. For equally as many reasons. ...
Love Protects
Almost 8 crazy, sweet, long, short, tumultuous, beautiful years ago I got married to this total stud. He’s hot you guys. And brilliant. I totally adore him and feel equally as adored — except on those days when he’s completely annoying to me and I’m totally...
Love Story Lament
My Dad performed a funeral last weekend for a beautiful woman in her 70’s who’s life was interrupted by cancer. Sorrowful stuff worthy of grief… but it was another tragic interruption from 10 years earlier that shook him. After 40 years of marriage her husband had...
A Prompting and a Pretzel
Interesting little thing happened yesterday. The kids were building a maze out of couch pillows with Brandon, and with everyone occupied I ventured out to the mall for a quick kid-free errand (I know, alone, a rarity but that’s not the interesting part). The wind...
My Response to: “Dear Church, Here’s Why People Are Really Leaving You.”
Recently there has been a lot of attention given to a post entitled, “Dear Church, Here’s Why People Are Really Leaving You.” It made me ache. It made me sad, really sad. It made me feel misunderstood and it made me frustrated. Just being honest. And it stuck...