Tip Toe If You Must, But Take The Step

Did you ever have a season in life where it was always hard and you were always waiting for the next bad news to land in your lap? Sometimes when we go through those seasons we often try to remind ourselves that it is only a season, but what happens when that season is way way longer than we expected it or ever anticipated it to be? What do we do? Do we move forward? Do we give up? How often do we sit around focussing on all the negative that surrounds our lives than we do focussing on all the actual blessings and positives we have in life? Surely, not every single thing is absolutely downright negative about our lives...right?! But why is it soooo easy to focus our minds and hearts on everything negative rather than positives?  Truthfully, I’m convicted as I write this. Raising teenagers is not for the weak hearted, so as I sit here in my bedroom focussing on all the negative that surrounds me I have asked God to truly help me deal with this season from a new perspective. T...

I guess it's true, life can change in an instant, unexpectedly, rapidly, and sometimes causing a great deal of sadness. You see your life one way and then one minute everything changes and you can no longer see your life's vision or what life will look like anymore. These last 7 days have been a whirlwind of emotions, let downs, sadness, and feelings of failure. One thought that has crossed my mind a lot is "I am just not good enough." And yes, I have allowed my mind to get lost in that thought more than once and every time it happens, a text will come through or someone will knock at my door and will have just the right God given words to snap me out of it. I suppose I've always struggled since I was a little girl with fear of not being wanted or felt I was unworthy of being wanted, but the feelings of being undesirable, unworthy, and unaccepted this week have been on repeat in my mind a little more than I ever remember. But then, God's voice is so much str...