Life, Laughter, Love...and Shiny Objects
This. This picture is about breaking myths and stereotypes. This picture is about showing that a woman who lifts weights and even competes doing so, isn’t just a ‘certain type’ of girl. This is about a girl who can be both feminine AND strong. This is about a girl who can be both nice AND fierce. […]
Life. Living. All of it can be found in the ordinary. This isn’t a new thought. It isn’t a revelation. It isn’t one you haven’t heard before. It goes along with things like not taking life for granted and enjoying the little things in life. And I think most of us try to honor these […]
Parents. You know how this goes, right? We can’t believe our kids are one month old, then six months, then they’re one, two, ten years and so on. And so here I am, the day of my son’s thirteenth birthday, wondering where the hell the last 13 years have gone? How did this happen? How has […]
Sometimes on the path of life, we are given extreme challenges. Obstacles we’re not even sure how to face, let alone how to get through. We’ve all had them, things that drop into our lap that weren’t a part of our master plan. Things that made us pause, trip, scream, curl into a ball and cry and wonder […]
Sometimes, we need reminders. Be Strong and Courageous (Joshua 1:9) Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of women about my faith journey. I’ve done speaking engagements before, but never ever had I spoken about my faith, in a church, to a group of women I didn’t know. This was a […]
“So you climb mountains often then?” “Ah…nope. Never have climbed a whole, entire mountain.” “Oh. Okay…” This is how a conversation went at the gym the other day when I was telling someone about my upcoming expedition to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, or Kili, as they call her. Have I hiked before? Yes. Has […]
Sometimes, there are things in life you must say ‘yes’ to. And sometimes, those very things seem like the most far reaching, unobtainable, outside of your comfort zone – kinds of things. The natural course for our minds is to say no in these exact situations…and yet that is exactly when we should say yes. Over […]
Earlier this week, in the midst of the media surrounding Caitlyn Jenner, a Facebook post with a black and white picture of what appeared to be two soldiers in war, one being carried by another went viral. The picture was accompanied by the following caption, “As I see post after post about Bruce Jenner’s transition to a […]
“Kindness. Sprinkle that shit everywhere.” You’ve seen the quote in your social media streams, right? And really…it’s all truth. Yet, we often find it hard to do. Real. Life. People, it happens. And we’re all normal, erring humans. Which means, some days…we’ve just got nothing left to sprinkle. Well, not kindness anyway. Sure, when the sun […]
It’s so hard, isn’t it? To pause, take a moment with yourself and Him, before throwing yourself into the demands of the day? I struggle with this…most days. But I’m working on it, and remembering the Grace that He provides us. Sometimes…when the day has already started to wash away from me, I find […]
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