thankful thursday: week four

  This week, I thought I’d share my “gifts” lists through photos. Are you still keeping track of your gifts? Or do you at least stop and think of your blessings in spite of a trying time? I hope so. I struggle often, but these weekly reminders...

book review: empty promises by pete wilson

Description: We all long for more of something in our lives. In our endless pursuit to feel worth and acceptance we find ourselves sacrificing everything for the promise to be a little more beautiful, a little richer, a little more powerful and successful, a little...

confessions: the beauty in ugly things

It’s been a rough couple of weeks, but through the ugliness of frozen days, illness, jury duty, death and broken vehicles, there has been a true beauty to January 2013. Sometimes, you have to look beyond the surface to see the true gift. This outrageously cold...

thankful thursdays: week three

  Today’s Thankful Thursday list is different — as I was writing about how “it can wait until tomorrow” is a lie I had been thinking of the times I put off visiting my family, because of the inconvenience of traffic or the chaos of life in...