Let go and Let God. Don’t worry. Just relax. Healing Esteem. Easy for you to say! I love a good slogan as much as the next person. But some of them cause more of the anxiety- or a new kind of anxiety- than they’re supposed to alleviate. For example: Let …
There is no purpose. Doesn’t that seem kind of depressing? Like a bad fortune cookie message. I don’t mean to alarm or depress you, but really, I don’t think there is A purpose to life. I think life is the purpose. Every single day. All those breaths you take. All …
I was thinking about the Easter Story. You’ve heard of it, right? Adoration. Betrayal. Death. Life. Often we talk about living our faith. And you know? I have lived the Easter Story. Rather recently, though not all in one week. I had my Palm Sunday: Things are on track. This …
Scary Good. This is Little Sir’s phrase for when something is new, uncertain and potentially terrifying, but also so intriguing, amazing and potentially fabulous that it is both Scary and Good. Scary Good. The train was scary good. The horse ride. The ocean. Isn’t this such a statement of life? …
My very first paid job was as a babysitter. On my 10th birthday. But a lot of my childhood stories are downers, so let’s not dwell. The point is I’m a worker. I earned BANK as a babysitter. In middle school, I had my own business making hand lettered signs. …
Or, maybe…honestly, this line struck me as so wrong that there really isn’t any “maybe” about it. A slave is one who waits…Waits? Slavery in any century past and present is of one who is kept against his/her will. Trapped. Captive. Whether legally (like American slavery) or illegally (like modern …