Well, I’ve been around the sun 36 times. I’m not sure how it happened so fast, but here we are. Not too long ago, I was 34, in a labor and delivery room, enduring yet another earth-shattering contraction, when after a harrowing 48 hours, the Doctor plopped a little, naked baby on my chest andContinue reading “36 Things I’ve Learned In Motherhood”
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The Good Fruit
Usually, anxiety isn’t thought of as a positive thing. Who wants to feel anxious? It typically only breeds more anxiety, self-consciousness, self-centered-ness, avoidance, irritability, frustration, impatience, and depression. I’m speaking from experience and the list could go on. But, does anxiety ever produce good stuff? I think, maybe so. I hated struggling with an anxietyContinue reading “The Good Fruit”
Changed for the Better
“See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.” – Isaiah 48:10 When I was in the thick of it, when my anxiety was at it’s very worst, when I felt tortured by my own thoughts, I could not see the light. I could not seeContinue reading “Changed for the Better”
The Hope Antidote 