We constantly hear about the importance of forgiveness but don’t you think forgiveness can be confusing? What is forgiveness exactly? It seems elusive to me, like an idea I can’t quite wrap my mind around. It’s talked about so much it’s assumed we all know what it is and how it’s done. Recently I started…
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Counseling is for Crazy People
I find it curious that counseling has a stigma attached to it. Couples therapy especially. Maybe it’s the fact that I aspired to be a therapist for many years or the reality that counseling has helped our family tremendously, but I can’t wrap my head around why people are so opposed to getting help for…
Love Does
In the middle of reading Love Does, by Bob Goff, I found myself on the floor of my boy’s bedroom sobbing. I literally fell to the carpet and asked God to help my selfish heart expand past where it currently is. It felt like the pages of Love Does had been etched on my heart long…
The StrongLuv Relationship Experiment
As David and I approached our 14th anniversary in 2014, we thought about what we envisioned for ourselves in the months leading up to our “I do’s” a decade and a half earlier and took stock of where we were. WE realized if we didn’t do something intentional — even radical perhaps — our life…
Blessing Bags for the Homeless Resources
If you have been following my Blessing Bags for the Homeless Series, you know that our family has been busy putting the bags together. We wanted to make them extra special and document it along the way so that you guys would have some resources to help you make blessing bags of your own. I published…