11/10/21 That’s what my friend, Megan, called her experience with brain cancer. Beautifully tragic. She subsequently died from it after fighting for 10 years, but used these words again just a few weeks before she passed away. Why would…or maybe how could she even think to call it “beautiful”? Tragic for sure. But beautiful? She left behind a husband and two precious daughters. And beautiful is the adjective that she used to describe the tragic. How? I thought about my own ex

10/27/21 It is really hard to love your life if you’re not feeling content or feeling really good about every part of it. It’s why many people go outside of their marriages, or circle of friends, or even out of their religion looking for something to make them feel better so that they could really feel like they love their life. So, I thought I’d talk about how I’ve discovered to feel better about ALL of it, and how my life is turning out to be the life that I truly love. And

10/20/21 Have you ever woken up one day and just felt all stirred up? Or maybe you’ve had a few days where you just couldn’t put your finger on it, but you knew things felt out of sorts. Heavy. Maybe you’re even angry and you’re not even sure why exactly, and you don’t even know where it came from. Confession: I’ve got some big decisions I have to make right now and it’s bringing up all kinds of feelings of vulnerability. I’ve also got a situation in my life where I feel like

9/8/21 This episode is going to be shorter than normal, I think. Mainly because I only have a few words to say on today’s topic. But also because I’m in a real-life centrifuge of emotions about it. Soooo, I had a message from my podcast host saying that my last episode “On Being Pursued: I Said Yes” is blowing up. It’s had more listens in 48 hours than all my other episodes. And I think I know what’s going on. The comments I’ve received from some people was that they were rea

9/1/21 I had a completely different episode ready to record for today’s podcast as a response to last week’s topic on being pursued. And I’ll have to push that out one more week, because I feel so compelled by all the death and the tragedy in Afghanistan that is currently impacting our nation’s military families, that I’d like to address just a portion of it that hits home for me. When I see the photos of the cargo planes filled with United States flag-draped caskets I am sad