Daily Step – The Grace of Patience With Ourselves
I am prone to impatience and self-criticism. Anyone else? It’s a character flaw, really. This impatience with myself with the slowness of my growth and this...
March 3, 2020
Daily Step – Monday Surprises
Mondays can be full of surprises. Like the 1:00 AM surprise of an alarm loudly shouting “Beep. Beep. Evacuate. Evacuate” in your son’s room sending him...
March 2, 2020
Daily Step – God Understands Us Both
Do not worry about the language you use. Three boys, three types of cereal. I know that perhaps I should adopt the “we open one box...
February 28, 2020
Daily Step – Difficult Conversations
I sometimes want to run away from difficult conversations. Especially those conversations where my children are looking at me with their inquisitive brown eyes and waiting...
February 27, 2020
Daily Step – Case of the Mondays
Mondays tend to give me anxiety. It seems like it is always the day of the week that we can’t find anything and everyone is just...
February 24, 2020
Daily Step – Hold My Hand
I used to ask God to hold my hand when I was scared. One time, on a rollercoaster I did not particularly want to be on,...
February 19, 2020
Daily Step – Unfinished
God is not finished with us yet. And If we are moving ever closer to the person God created us to be, the details will work...
February 18, 2020
Daily Step – Asking for Help
It is quite the lesson in humility to accept help from a 7 year old. On Friday, like many people in DFW, my boys and I...
January 13, 2020
Daily Step – Trusting in Joy
Along the journey towards the greater, there are many small, daily steps to better understand oneself, God, and others. This is one of my “daily steps”....
December 20, 2019
Daily Step – Surprised by Joy
Along the journey towards the greater, there are many small, daily steps to better understand oneself, God, and others. This is one of my “daily steps”....
December 19, 2019