Warnings and Personalities

Friends, can I shoot straight with you? Most posts flow out of me. If I know what I want to say (like The Grove: Story), the writing isn’t painful or hard. I need to find time and get the words down on paper with enough time to have it proofread and tweaked, but it doesn’t […]

The End of Me

I’ll just say it at the beginning. I like being in control of the day. I like managing and leading and directing. And honestly, it isn’t so much that I like it as that I’m pretty good at handling a lot of things at one time so those roles tend to fit my personality. Multi-tasking […]

We’re Supposed To Get Broken

I had a bit of a revelation in the park the other morning a few weeks back. My husband was away on another training weekend in the UK and I was TIRED, I was trying to put sunscreen on my five year old, while keeping half an eye on my toddler, who was climbing a […]

Ignore or Heed?

A year ago anxiety consumed me. All of the stress and miscommunication and underlying tension of the past year and a half on the field were peaking. Burnout was no longer a matter of if but when. As I immersed myself in Scripture and sought counsel, the anxiety eased. However, the circumstances didn’t change. My […]

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