From More to Enough
I have always had the problem of more. If it feels good, I want more of it. If a little is good, a lot MUST be better, right?! It hit me two nights ago while making a smoothie dessert for me and my kids. As I put EXTRA cacao in the blender, capitalization essential...
Fear of People
I’ve been reading a really good book lately called The Authenticity Project. In the book, a question is asked, “What is the one thing that defines you, that makes everything else about you fall into place?” I have thought long and hard about this question and it...
Seasons of Life and Motherhood
Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us, there is… A Time for Everything 3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal,...
“My Two Cents” by a Gold Star Spouse on Memorial Day
Sometimes we wear our traumas and tragedies and losses like a badge of honor. Our misery on display for all to see, as if it were some kind of twisted accomplishment. We do not mean to do this. People do not mean to “honor” us like this, for this, and yet, it’s all...
Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.