Common-sense grace for the try-hard girl
Gene Krantz, flight director for the Apollo 13* mission, tells his team that failure is not an option: they must bring home the three astronauts catapulting through space in a handicapped module. Thank goodness they didn’t fail, and all astronauts came back to earth safely. Although my circumstances aren’t so life-or-death, I’ve adopted Krantz’s motto […]
“My dad started his own business, but I could never do that,” I’d tell my friends. Famous last words. Last week, I became an entrepreneur and started my new business, Emerald Editing + Copywriting. For years — I mean y-e-a-r-s — I was adamant that I couldn’t and wouldn’t be an entrepreneur. Starting a company […]
You’ve done it. Lord knows I’ve done it. We have a quiet time filled with thoughtful reflection, insight, and hymns that cause our hands to reach heavenward, and then… … we walk back into our regularly-scheduled life and the wheels fall off the bus. The kids make us mad. We can’t believe coffee takes so […]
My body isn’t what it used to be. It doesn’t look or behave like it did when I was 20 because — not shockingly — people change as they age. But when it’s your body, these changes are shocking and totally unwelcome. When I see age spots and cellulite, when I hear my knees crunch, […]
Grief comes to us for different reasons. Burying someone we love. Sending our first born to kindergarten. Signing the divorce papers. Packing our child’s room for college. Returning to work after years of staying at home. Try-hard girls, we all experience loss and grief, yet so many of us push it away. So I have […]
Oh y’all – you’ll love my friend Tara, who has all the authority in the world to speak about grief because she’s walked through it after experiencing the loss of Alan, her husband of 24 years. Her story, her questions, and her love for her people will make you fall in love with her just […]
Dorina Lazo Gilmore is a blogger, speaker and author of Glory Chasers and Flourishing Together. She specializes in helping people navigate grief and flourish in community. She’s an award-winning children’s author now, and Dorina’s also been a journalist, missionary, social entrepreneur and Bible study teacher. But mostly when I think of Dorina of think of her […]
Back-to-school meant back-to-stress for me. In elementary school, I stressed about what teacher I’d get. In junior high, I worried about whether I’d have friends in my classes, who I’d eat lunch with, and how my Aqua-Netted hair could possibly stay in place despite the Houston humidity… and gravity itself. In high school, I stressed […]
The start of school bring me to tears because I’m letting go, walking into the unknown with our girls, nervous about what the year holds. The end – not just of summer – but a season of life that we’ve known make me cry too. Both are sacred. God starts the Bible with “In the […]
I got way more than I bargained for on a recent vacation. Disney and my younger daughter taught me three life lessons I didn’t expect to learn. Life is funny that way—we learn in ways we never expected. Here’s what she taught me and how you can apply it to your own life. 1. She […]
