Words & Insights From the Heart
Do you ever feel like your life is rolling on oval wheels? Fight as you may, normalcy, stability and balance elude you. Life is uncertain. Sometimes normal things go unpredictably sideways. It seems, too, that the phenomenon is cyclical. During my teen years, I spent oodles and oodles of hours in the gym. There I
Do you have a community? Are you good at allowing people to come alongside you when life gets tough? We can’t be islands unto ourselves. We do not have to fake it until we make it. God made us for community. Living life even and single-minded may seem like safety, but it closes us off
Being vulnerable feels wrong. To willingly speak publicly, or at all, about what stirs your heart requires next-level courage. I forget that when I listen to speakers. I go purposefully to sit and listen. Most of the time I even pay to do so. Beth Moore speaks to countless women, large arenas full of them.
Sunshine gets to be the hero almost always, doesn’t it? I feel pretty much solar-powered. Bright sun and blue skies fuel my best days. That same sun is now the enemy… at least if I want to leave home between 7:15 and 7:30 am. Misfiring mechanical devices always mess with my mood. First-world problems, right?
Recently I shared a message about joy with the women of my church. During college and my young adult years, I graced a stage or two doing skits for one event or another, but never spoke more than a few lines. This time I spoke, spoke, as in, THE speaker. I still cannot believe I