I am set free! FREE. From “mother guilt,” and all the criticisms I constantly heap upon myself. At least I found the key to the jail cell. I am so done chastising myself and thinking that everything I do or don’t do for my kids will leave eternal marks on their souls. Now I am NOT SAYING that I am throwing up my hands and singing, “Que Sera, Whatever Will Be.” I’m just coming to terms with Continue Reading
Archives for September 2012
On Having 7 Years Left To Teach Luke EVERYTHING
Seven years ago Luke started DK at Cornerstone Elementary School. And in seven years from now he will start college. COLLEGE!! As my young boy started his new life in dreaded middle school (me dreading it…), it hit me. HARD. We have only 7 years left with him. Then we, too, will be standing at the gate at the airport like Adam and Christina Braverman in this season’s first episode Continue Reading
God Speaks Through Matt Damon
God thinks and acts outside the proverbial box. He always has. That, among a trillion other things, makes Him God. But sometimes I forget He wants to speak to my heart at all. I forget He cares deeply about what I care deeply about. And that He speaks in different ways. Then He does, and I am blown away. AGAIN. Last Christmas break I took the kids to see, “We Bought a Zoo,” starring Matt Continue Reading
Inspiration Oozing Out of Me
I am so high I feel like I’m in the purple and orange hues of a Los Angeles sunset. I just returned from a retreat. (Now, please don’t run away and click off.) It was a different sort of retreat. We called it a “Girlfriends’ Retreat,” a mix between a “girls’ weekend” and a traditional churchy women’s retreat. My BFF in New York City, Kim, and I were in cahoots on this. Being on opposite coasts Continue Reading