In The Restoration Project series, I’m sharing my story of how I’m moving from hurt to restoration. If you missed the first post about naming the hurt, you can find it here. When my girls were toddlers, we went to Target… that place you go to get a few items like toilet bowl cleaner, but […]
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The Restoration Project: Naming the Hurt
Over the next few posts, I’m going to walk you through how I’ve come from a place of hurt to a place of restoration. Care to join me? Read on. In 2nd grade, a little boy showed me that he liked me by doing the most unusual thing: he stabbed me in the knee with […]
Why Rule-Following Achievers Actually Hate Following Rules
What my daughter taught me about rules and why I have a love-hate relationship with them. One year, our daughter came home from school saying that her teacher had a lot of rules. She told me that there were four rules for how to stand in line and that, “We have to look at our […]
Learning to Live Lightly: Living without the Weight of Failure, Sin, and “Should”
I have one item packed away in my life that is getting too heavy for me to carry. Do you carry this weight too? After a recent trip to the UK for our 40th birthdays, my husband I learned the value in living (and packing) lightly. This principle applies to my right-now life so we’re […]