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How this Perfectionist is Picking Herself Up (Hint: It’s not on her own)
I am a perfectionist. A perfectionist who doesn’t want to do anything wrong, fears others showing me my failures, and who is constantly aware of what I could do better. I am tempted to define myself by...
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Why I didn’t wait until Christmas for this gift.
Candlelight flickers, twinkle lights shine, and the sliver of the moon suggests the sun it reflects. Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. We choose to recognize that...
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Why I Have a Dream
This is my family. My boys and my cousin’s son, in their Christmas jammies, completely oblivious to the fact that 50 or 60 years ago this would not have been possible. Unaware that hate between their...
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Why Depression Won’t Win: An Easter Reflection
I am a girl who feels she is not enough. Perfection seems like it should be possible and yet I fall short. I snap at my kids. I am jealous of other women. I am irritable, selfish, materialistic. I see...
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How I am doing with all of this change…
“Are you excited?!” The question comes at me every day from people who are excited for me with the expectation that I must be thrilled by the changes coming my way. But I only look at them and can...
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How Jesus Heals my Depression
Depression has been my constant companion since I was 16 years old. It has oppressed me with its hopelessness, its despair, its sense of futility, anger, and deceit. Yes, deceit. Depression lies to me....
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Don’t Worry: On Birds, Grass, and the Agitation Cycle of Life
I have sat down to write this post about 15 times. Sometimes on paper, others in my head. Each attempt to document the changes and uncertainties of our life, I find myself tongue tied. Paralyzed....
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Day 7 :: Ruth {Hope for the Depressed}
For the majority of my adult life, I have struggled with depression. I’ve gone to counseling, been on medications, switched medications, and generally sought healing as best as I have known how. But...
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Day 11 :: Ezra & Nehemiah {Restoration}
I struggle to take days off. My problem is that I feel that if I’m not being productive then the day is not worth it. Without having something to show for myself, I feel that I am somehow failing or...
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Day 16 :: Ecclesiastes {Does Life Have Meaning?}
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” (Ecclesiastes 1:2) You might hear me cry these words as I toil over a sudsy sink of pots, pans,...
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When the Breath Won’t Come
It’s Friday and I’m happy to be once again joining the Five Minute Friday community in writing for 5 minutes on the weekly word prompt. This week’s word: Breathe. It is one of those moments. Tragedy...
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What Postpartum Depression Looks Like {Signs and Symptoms}
While preparing for the external version of our breach son, a delivery nurse went through all the check-in procedures. While going through my medical history, I answered yes to a history of depression....
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Why Should We Hope? {On Marriage, Sin, and Redemption}
Hello friends, can I speak to you as friends? Because today I am not sure if I know how to write an article or how to form an essay. I can only speak – and feel I am being invited to speak to you...
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The Myth of Enough: Five Minutes on Being a Woman Today
It’s Friday again and I want to be more disciplined in my writing so I am going to once again join the Five Minute Friday writing community. You are welcome to join us! Every week we write for 5...
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New Season, Same Song
It’s Friday and time for Five Minute Friday. Every week, writers around the world follow the same one word prompt and write for five minutes. No major edits. No second guesses. This week’s prompt from...
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How to Defeat Shame {An encouraging word from Psalm 3}
Shame is a liar. It looks at who we are, the deep parts of us, and identifies us as flawed. Broken. Unworthy. Unlovable. In my worst days, I have believed the lies of shame. I have believed I have...
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Dear Tired Mom
This week’s Five Minute Friday prompt suits exactly what I wanted to write about anyways, “Mom.” Here is my 5 minutes of writing with little to no edits (so hard, by the way). First, I want to say I...
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I feel like a fake! I’m a terrible mom! :: Impostor Syndrome and Parenting
Neil Armstrong felt like a fake. Imagine. While in a room full of artists and scientists, musicians and discoverers, he said to Neil Gaiman: “I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck...
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The Truth of Who I Am :: Shame vs Love {FMF}
It’s Friday and time for Five Minute Friday again. Kate Motaung has prompted us with the word “Truth.” I could go so many ways with this, but right now there is only one I want to talk about. The...
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What Inspiration and I Cannot Do
It’s Friday and this week’s Five Minute Friday one-word-prompt is Inspire. Feel free to link up over at www.fiveminutefriday.com! We would love to have you join our writing community. Or read others’...
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