Letting Beauty Fade

Letting Beauty Fade

Short, fat, tall, thin.I look in the mirror and a thousand voices echo in my head.This is too big, that’s not big enough.My inner critic is relentless and harsh.Images swirl through my mind’s eye.Bone-thin models and beautiful actresses and singers.Every one of them telling me the same thing.You don’t measure up. Then the if onlys…

Be Still

It had been “one of those” mornings.It was the middle of December–Christmastime. Things were crazy. Everything from the past two months seemed to have hit me that day–my newborn, my husband’s surgery, a trip to Colorado, Christmas preparations, and a deployment date looming in the near future. This particular day was filled with a million…

Hard Things

“This country will not survive another generation of Christians that fit in.” Josh Harris said it. His little brothers are spreading the message. My husband picked up Do Hard Things at the library for me yesterday, and I’ve already read it cover to cover. Not that I’m biased towards homeschooling Oregonians, but those Harris brothers…

The End.

The End.