5 Ways to Not Grow Weary While You Wait

Persevering Through Dark Days, Discouragement, and Suffering

“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 […]

Holding On To Hope… When Life Is Hard

Announcing Virtual VBS for GrownUp Girls 2015!

Virtual VBS for GrownUp Girls 2015

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe No matter how dark it seems in your life […]

What Do You Need to Let Go to Be Free?

Ah Spring! The time when a woman’s fancy swiftly turns to thoughts of cleaning and decluttering and reorganizing… I remember one such spring, when in a frenzy, I attacked my overflowing filing cabinet, ever so determined to purge its contents ruthlessly. I never got past “G” – for “GOALS” — where I had filed random […]

One Battle At A Time

I can be an all-or-nothing kind of girl – a bit of a perfectionist.  In my heart of hearts, I’d like everything in my life to always be perfectly well-ordered, organized, disciplined, beautiful … and at the same time full of joyous spontaneity, creativity, and freedom. You don’t have to raise your hand if you […]