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A Bugalicious {Heart} Update

Our little Bug got to see his cardiologist this morning.  The one Cricket pretends to be 99.9% of the time they play doctor. {Side note: he weighs between 27 and 29 pounds, depending which scale you plop him on, and he’s a whopping 33 inches long.  At 15.5 months old.  That’s our boy!} His doc has given us the go… Read More

Health, The Kiddos

I Ate A Kit Kat

{begin mindless fodder} There.  I said it.  I did it.  I broke my sugar “boycott”.  70 days without sweets {minus my single, carefree anniversary cookie}, with about 30 more to go, and then this…a kit kat, in all it’s chocolate-coated-wafery goodness. I also haven’t shaved my legs for 2 weeks, just in case you wanted to know. {Sorry. You didn’t.}… Read More

Daily Life, Goals, Health, Keepin' it Real

Snot. Tissues. Benadryl. Repeat.

My precious hubby has blessed me with lots of opportunities to sleep a little more today.  He rocks my world. The wee babes are not well, and I’m not feeling spectacular either. So, in honor of all the snotty tissues laying around, and the fact that the Benadryl has once again been dug out of our medicine cabinet, let us… Read More

Health, Keepin' it Real, The Kiddos

The Glorious Morning of Muffins

Because I’m addicted to muffins I wanted you to really be able to visualize the magnificence that is the Morning Glory Muffin, I’m doing somewhat of a repeat post. Aren’t I so thoughtful?  You don’t answer that.  Really. I shared this {favorite} recipe in June, but for some unknown reason only had phone-camera photos to share with you, which fall… Read More

Food, Health

The Scoop

My hubby and I started the Love & War marriage series at church last night.  We love being married.  We love marriage.  And we think everyone else should too.  This book {and DVD series} is so good.  You should read it. We then lost power late last night in a most magnificent display of lightning, thunder, wind and rain.  Our… Read More

Daily Life, Health, Keepin' it Real

100 Days to Healthy: Update

To check in on my progress at any time, simply click here. Here are my notes from yesterday and today {Thursday & Friday}: Day 17 – 18:     Lost track of my days a little…but the long and the short of it is…I’m more motivated and inspired about getting healthy than ever before!  I’ve lost 5 pounds in 3 weeks… Read More

Health

Weapons of Mass Consumption

It occurred to me the other day, while placing an zucchini apple spice muffin on the gun on the counter, that I had to… Wait… what?  That’s weird? Well, I suppose I could have been considerate enough to put the muffin in a little baggie and stashed a little love note inside, but I was in a hurry and… Oh. … Read More

Health

Health Rules!

For the latest on my 100 Days to Health, click here.  And if you’ve joined the madness adventure…how the heck are you doing? Speaking of health… I gave a talk to about 400 ladies over a period of 2 days {during my lean & fit *BC years} at Youth Haven Ranch for their “Ladies Day” about how vital it is… Read More

Health

This is Juicy

My daughter has been drinking… this substance of out-of-this-world nutritious deliciousness. And that is exactly what is in it: carrots, apples, a chunk of ginger.  That’s it.  I decided it was time to dig our beloved juicer out from the depths of the “moldy pile” we’d left it in when unpacking our stinking storage unit into our new garage.  Here… Read More

Health

My Sweet “t” on Day 2

I love behaving myself {in the sugar department, that is}.  It just makes me feel more alive and in control {you know, of the miniscule parts of my life that I actually have control over}.  Day 2 went well.  Just 98 to go.  Sheesh. Took the kiddos for a walk today.  Tomorrow I’m breaking out my 6 pound hula hoop. … Read More

Friendship, Health

100 Days to Healthy

Are you ready for this?  I so totally, completely and utterly am! 100 days, starting tomorrow and ending the day before Thanksgiving, without sugar, junk food, and countless cups of hot caffeinated bliss.  Don’t get me wrong…there will be caffeinated bliss …just in moderation.  But seeing I seem completely incapable of doing sugary foods in moderation, they’re getting chopped.  Completely. … Read More

Health

Houston, we have Culture!

Walking through Meijer yesterday I stopped at the yogurt aisle and spent a moment reveling at the fact that I might never need to pour money into that creamy, coagulated goodness again. The thought makes my purse smile.  We shared a moment of silence as I bid farewell to the over-priced little cartons of activia and dannon, kicked up my… Read More

Food, Health

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Easter reminds us that the tomb is empty. But befo Easter reminds us that the tomb is empty.
But before the resurrection, there was a towel.

In John 13, just hours before the cross,
Jesus doesn’t assert power, He kneels.
He washes the feet of Peter.
He washes the feet of Judas.
He loves them to the end.

🎙️ Episode 017 | The Jesus Way is live.

What does it look like to choose love in the middle
of betrayal, grief, disagreement, and struggle?
The way of Jesus isn’t flashy.
 It’s faithful.

🎧 Listen wherever you stream podcasts.

#OhGoodGrief #TheJesusWay  #KnownByLove
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So very thankful for the life that came from his d So very thankful for the life
that came from his death.

May you know how wildly, wholly
and wonderfully you are loved…

“This is how much God loved the world:
He gave his Son, his one and only Son.
And this is why: so that no one need be
destroyed; by believing in him, anyone
can have a whole and lasting life.
God didn’t go to all the trouble of
sending his Son merely to point an
accusing finger, telling the world
how bad it was. He came to help,
to put the world right again.”

John 3:16-17 | The Message

#GoodFriday #ItIsFinished

📷 Levi Lusko
Boundaries are not the opposite of love. They are Boundaries are not the opposite of love.
They are often the evidence of it.

Jesus touched lepers.
He wept with friends.
He restored the broken.

But He also corrected boldly.
He withdrew intentionally.
He did not entrust Himself to everyone.

You can forgive someone
without restoring immediate proximity.
You can love someone
without giving them full access to your life.

Episode 016 | Grace + Guardrails is available now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #BoundariesMatter
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Love does not require unlimited access. In Episod Love does not require unlimited access.

In Episode 016 of Oh, Good Grief, we explore what Jesus
actually modeled when it comes to boundaries.

He loved everyone.
He did not entrust Himself to everyone.
He was full of grace and truth.
He welcomed the crowds, but confided in the few.

In a world that demands access to our time, energy, and heart, this episode unpacks what it looks like to forgive without naivety, love without losing discernment, and practice grace with guardrails.

🎧 Grace + Guardrails | How Jesus Modeled Boundaries in a World
  That Demands Access is live wherever you listen to podcasts

#OhGoodGrief #GraceAndTruth #BiblicalBoundaries #FaithInRealLife
Sometimes the most honest thing we can say is: thi Sometimes the most honest thing we can say is:
this is where I am today…
but it isn’t where my story ends.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #GodIsFaithful
Healing after betrayal isn’t linear. It’s messy. Healing after betrayal isn’t linear.

It’s messy.
It’s exhausting.
And sometimes it feels impossible.

In this conversation, Lisa Devine shares what it actually looked like to rebuild a marriage after infidelity: the boundaries, the brutal honesty, the forgiveness that had to be chosen again and again.

But more than anything,
it’s a story about the quiet ways God shows up
when everything feels shattered.

🎧 Listen to Episode 15 of Oh, Good Grief
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