Learning to Breathe Again

The world has been turned upside down.  Of that there is no doubt. In a few short weeks we have stopped everything we love doing as a community, are unable to be with friends or extended family, have changed the way we work, or have lost jobs.  Children are mostly being educated online at home,…

Being Calm in a Time of Chaos

What have you been noticing about life? I mean, really noticing now? Behind closed doors, working at home if we are fortunate to have a job, and not interacting with real in-the-flesh people, we have all (or will) become masters in musing.  For introverts, the transition at this time may feel natural and not as…

Book review: ‘You Are Enough’ by Mandy Hale

A few posts ago I reviewed Mandy Hale’s book Beautiful Uncertainty.  Her newest book, You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole, is the subject of today’s post. If you have read Beautiful Uncertainty, you could not ask for a greater contrast between that book and this new one, and perhaps even wonder if this…

Book review: ‘Beautiful Uncertainty’ by Mandy Hale

Today’s book review is about Beautiful Uncertainty by Mandy Hale.  Mandy is also a blogger and has written other books.  You can find her at The Single Woman blog. Beautiful Uncertainty has class, emotion, poetic words, faith, and strength saturating its pages.  In fact, it is dripping in sweetness and comfort.  It is like a…

May the baby Jesus bless you

A simple scene before us, A mother kneeling by, A father looking tenderly, A bright star in the sky. For in their midst is He, Who came to save us all, A baby boy with arms outstretched, For love and peace He calls.