I've got a personal share for you today as I rely on an understanding of grace that met me in a very troubling time of my life. It's been 9 years since I moved my young daughters and myself into a new house without their dad. Thick in the divorce proceedings, I found myself unpacking boxes in a house just a few minutes from the home we shared as … [Read more...]
Inviting Grace to Stay
The Simple (painful, hard, difficult) Act of Surrender
I’m getting up the energy to pack my bags for Italy. We leave tomorrow and I haven’t packed a thing. This trip, while exciting to think about, has left me with a ton of resistance. I can hear the calls now- “are you crazy?! It’s Italy, go, enjoy, eat lots of pasta, enjoy the wine, drink in the views and stop complaining!” But the fact is, … [Read more...]