Tag: joy
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Remembering what I’ve learned.
We are leaving a lovely little town in northern Michigan and I came away with something special. We enjoyed some time away for our anniversary and I love time like this because it helps me to slow down. To see. To experience something in an unhurried way. • flat rocks to skip • heart shaped […]
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Fear
I’ve lived a lot of my life in fear. The more I feared things, the more those things came true, which kept me in this cycle believing all those fears because some of them had come true. Last night my son had a bad thought, which made him fearful he’d have nightmares. Oh bless him, […]
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Gratitude
Oh my gratitude has grown tremendously in this season of life. Gratitude for creation, for small moments, for quiet, for swinging, and reading. Gratitude typically slows me down helping me stay in the moment. I get joy just thinking about all these moments of deep deep gratitude. A lot of those moments have little to […]
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Making room
Talking to mom friends this morning and realized motherhood is just absolute insanity. We never know what we will get for the day. It is a little out of our control and sometimes at the whim of our kids moods and behaviors. It swings back and forth, back and forth. I’m constantly tempted to follow […]
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Play and rest
Play and rest. My default is to feel guilty when we are resting. Watching a movie, tv…maybe because there are better ways to rest. Isn’t this true of us all. How are we resting? Yesterday, my oldest and I played at a local trampoline park. I climbed, I jumped, I fell hard a lot. So […]
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Embracing it all
I have all sorts of emotions, at any time of the day. I’m joyful. I’m sad. I’m happy. I’m mad. (This sounds like a children’s book.) But to say all this, you already know it. We are human. We feel. I got overwhelmed by all the feels this past week. End of the school year. […]
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Acceptance
I learned young you should push back on areas you don’t like about yourself. For example, I don’t like that I get overwhelmed easily, so I’ll pretend I don’t feel overwhelmed. Then struggle and toil against that overwhelming feeling, that is one hundred percent human, and typically make myself more overwhelmed. So I’m writing this […]
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You are not alone
My husband’s favorite band, Emery, released an album called “You were never alone.” My husband got a poster with this album cover on it and I can remember the very day I opened it those words washed over me. You were never alone. Alone. Yuck. I hate that word and honestly avoid it most days. […]
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