Faith and Personal Growth
All things faith, spiritual and personal growth related! Fear, consciousness, vulnerability, bravery, and authenticity are all welcome here!
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Changes
Why all the changes? Chopped all the hair, stopped working at the gym, vegetarianism, no alcohol…. Um…wait, what?! That’s right. I stopped drinking. Permanently. But having a cocktail or two is fun! Drinking responsibly is no big deal. Having a glass of wine with dinner doesn’t make you an alcoholic. There’s no harm in having a… Continue reading
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Irony
The daily post prompts of the last three days; Adrift, Unmoored, and Descend all succinctly describe my inner thoughts as of late. Perhaps depressed, anxious and floundering would be more accurate. Continually vacillating between feeling justified and completely ridiculous by any real world standard; in my head it’s a panicked loop of: upcoming deployment, two great –… Continue reading
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It’s Not Forever…
In 2009-2010, we were nearly debt free. We were so close. We were working our Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover, we attended Financial Peace; the 9-week class held at our church. We were doing it! Then we got complacent. “Eh, we got this. We’ve come so far, and we’ll never let it get like that again…,”… Continue reading
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Contentment
I read an article today that struck a chord with me on multiple levels. The article discusses how a woman who is happy with herself is the beauty industry’s nightmare. What can she be sold (or he for that matter) when there isn’t some perceived “flaw” to fix? This covers so much more than the… Continue reading
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Security
Security means home to me, both as a mother and as a military spouse. As we move all over every 3 years, finding a home and setting up shop says: security. At least for the time being. Finding a home and settling in also brings up words like safety, family, and contentment. Contentment has been… Continue reading
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Doubt
Who doesn’t? About parenting, about what I want to be when I grow up, about life choices. I think we all wrestle with doubt. The big one, though? The big one for me is about faith. I have nagging doubts about faith all the time. I don’t doubt that there is a GOD. I have… Continue reading
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The Choice
I remember rolling over and feeling numb. It was surreal to think that I had actually done what I thought I could never do, but had desired for longer than I realized. I thought that it felt like what divorce must feel like in a way. I ended a 25 year friendship. We had grown… Continue reading
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Resist
I’ve been sitting here staring out the window to my backyard for about 3 minutes with my hands resting on the keyboard. “I don’t have a clue…” I think to myself as the sun shines through the trampoline screen that is now a semi-permanent fixture right outside my bedroom window. Dog hair litters the floor, the… Continue reading
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A Peek Behind the Curtain
Not just because of an election season that has left most of us feeling like we’ve been sitting in the spin cycle of a washing machine all wrung out, and not because of another public shooting, or other tragic event. Just the d-word in general. Depression. I started writing about my own experiences with depression a couple… Continue reading
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Inevitable
I entered the school cafeteria with my brave I’m-not-really-a-volunteer-type-person-but-I-want-to-be face on. PTA? Ugh. Being one of “those” moms? Please. Not for me. Always put together with makeup and hair completely in place? Not hardly – even if I wanted to be! Exhibit A: I do not have the hair to pull off being one of… Continue reading
Life and Other Stuff 