Daily Step – A Prayer for Patience
Patience. This week I’m praying a lot for the grace of patience. Patience with myself, and patience with others. Patience with the struggles of this year....
September 2, 2020
Daily Step – “Catastrophizing”
Catastrophizing. This word was the subject of two random podcast episodes I listened to last week. Both hosts were talking about their habit of “catastrophizing” situations....
September 1, 2020
Daily Step – It started as a picture.
It started as a picture. Right before this school year started, I got the crazy idea to redo a room in a weekend. It actually took...
August 31, 2020
Daily Step – What can you put down today?
It has been a crazy week. That’s kinda a funny line to start with in 2020. Funny because it could literally be true every week since...
August 28, 2020
Daily Step – For all who need a little hope.
Some say hope is hard to find these days. I can understand where they are coming from. Especially this morning as we wait to access the...
August 27, 2020
Daily Step – Have we forgotten?
Yesterday, an adventure involving robin’s eggs and dinosaurs went on behind me as I worked. As we wait for the boys school to start up, my...
August 26, 2020
Daily Step – Using what we have to bring hope.
Two plastic flowers sit in a homemade vase on my desk – a sign of hope and light. I was sitting on the couch this weekend...
August 25, 2020
Daily Step – Remember it’s not always about the final product.
I’ve had these geometric shapes since my first year of teaching 18 years ago. I think a professor gave them to me (memory fades after so...
August 24, 2020
Daily Step – This is 40!
I snapped this photo yesterday randomly. I was trying to just capture a quick image of my boys playing nicely. After all, they had just argued...
August 21, 2020
Daily Step – A Lesson in Love
Turns out – brothers fight. A lot. Particularly when they have the same DNA. My identical twins have been getting into fights with each other a...
August 20, 2020