I was skeptical at first. It didn’t sound like a legitimate medical diagnosis — more like the kind of thing moms say, when you’re whining and they want you to leave them alone and go back outside and play. Sometimes I felt a sharp, shooting pain – out of nowhere. Other times a dull, throbbing […]
It’s one of my favorite Thanksgiving memories… My cousins and siblings and I singing the Pilgrim hymn “We Gather Together” at the top of our lungs… and not just in our classrooms, where we were learning it for the annual elementary school Thanksgiving Feast, but in the car both to and from school, and in […]
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” ~ Galatians 6:9 It’s not easy to wait for the reward for all our hard work. The results. Or at least some teeny tiny glimmer of them. Not easy to persevere, to press on, to […]
“Perseverance means more than endurance — more than simply holding on until the end.” ~ Oswald Chambers I’m meditating on these words this morning… thinking about some areas of my life where I’m just “enduring,” just holding on, waiting for the challenge or struggle or hardship to pass — rather than actively persevering. Actively learning […]
A few years ago I completely lost my mind and signed up for a half-marathon — 13.1 miles of torture and agony and pain! Okay, that may be a little dramatic. A little. But it’s pretty brutal. And I am not an athlete. At all. What I am is a woman who hates to exercise […]
