Where Passion & Purpose Collide
Ever since designing shirts for Union28 several years ago, I’ve wanted to create more. I love the idea of fashion with a mission. I haven’t stopped thinking about it. But the burden of having to order the correct sizes in colors that actually sell, not to mention the upfront cost of purchasing stock – enough to keep the price down… Read More
It happens every time I tell the story. I’m right there. In the muck, in the shame. In the hopelessness. I can feel the grip of self-loathing tighten around my throat. My heartbeat quickens as the fear of exposure whispers; You are such a mess. You are worthless. You’re finished. It’s just for a second. But it’s there. So much… Read More
Homeschool, private or public? After breast or bottle, home or work, to vaccinate or not…this is the big, looming question. For some it’s a no-brainer. For others it’s an incredibly hard, perplexing decision to make, and a lonely road to navigate. Please know, right off the bat, what this post is not attempting to communicate. It is not my intention,… Read More
I had become an expert secret keeper. I’d been swept up so fast, and so young, in a whirlwind of self-destructive behavior that the only way to keep breathing was to keep pretending everything was alright. And so I built walls of deception and lies in a desperate effort to keep the world from seeing the real me. The sad,… Read More
We’ve read lots of excellent parenting books over the years, but nothing has shifted our paradigms quite like Danny Silk’s Loving Our Kids On Purpose. It rocked our parenting world. It’s like Shepherding A Child’s Heart meets Parenting with Love and Logic, edited by Erma Bombeck. It’s brilliant and simple and biblical and fun. And it just.makes.sense, which…when you’re a… Read More
Not many words today. Just a quick reminder that… YOU. ARE. ENOUGH. That nothing you do or say…or don’t do or don’t say…effects your worth. It’s a call to stop claiming your successes as luck, and your failures as confirmation of identity. A reminder that your inability to check every single thing off your daily checklist has nothing to do… Read More
I’ve been processing a lot over the summer – a lot of good, deep, heart stuff – and it’s been an incredibly liberating journey to say the least. Not always easy, but always good. As God has slowly been chipping away at the unsightly parts of my heart, dealing with misplaced priorities and my maternally-inspired anger issue, He’s tenderly brought… Read More
A funny thing happens when you feel called to pour out your heart and soul, raw and unfiltered, on paper and offer it up as a broken prayer to an equally fragile world. You feel brave and courageous. On a mission and absolutely determined to hit the target, no matter the cost. The euphoria that comes from actually accomplishing something… Read More
Ever feel out of balance? Like a half-baked, multi-tasking failure? Hmm. Me to. While donning my wife hat, I strap on my momma bonnet and nestle on top of that my professional sombrero…then I attempt to keep my balance atop of this colorful unicycle of life, while juggling school and friends and church and laundry and work and play and… Read More
Spring has played a most awful trick on us, as we came out to frosty windows and snow-covered grass this morning. But…the show must go on, so we shall be freezing our heinies off at the Detroit Tigers game tonight – our first one ever as a family – and will be hoping with everything in us that the excited… Read More
I spent most of my adolescent years aching to be someone else. Any body else. And while I can say that I’ve finally learned to embrace the quirky, awkwardly transparent, people-loving introvert I’ve grown into, I still occasionally stumble into that place of longing for the ability to behave or perform or create like another. I often struggle with comparing… Read More
In the same way we don’t tend to take dieting advice from someone who’s clearly overweight, or business pointers from a company that’s just filed for bankruptcy, we don’t tend to put much stock into marital advice from someone who’s no longer married. It makes sense, right? Well, not always. My mom forwarded this to me last week and it… Read More
