We are one week into the new year, the kids are back at school, most of us are back to work, and if I am honest, a little funk has set in. I am enough of a realist to know that we would not wake up on January 1st, 2021 and all of 2020...
Five Ways to Overcome Decision Fatigue
Decision fatigue is the deterioration of our ability to make decisions after a long season of decision making. In other words, the more decisions you need to make, the worse you are going to be at weighing all the options and discerning God’s leading in your life. You daily wrestle with balancing working at...
Draw Near in Troubling Times
I am going to take a little detour from our normal path of encouragement for your parenting journey and share with you where I am right now. It is my prayer that parts of this story will resonate with you and you will find encouragement in knowing you are not alone. You see, I am...
Don’t Tell Them, “It Will All Be Fine”
In the daily crush of stay-at-home orders, quarantines, gloves, masks, updates on the number of infected and deaths, school at home, and so on, there is great temptation tell our kids that "everything will be okay." But in our effort to soothe their fears, are we setting them up for a crisis of faith?...
This Is an Amazing Opportunity
It seems counter intuitive to look at this time in history as an opportunity. But why not take the challenge to change the view of all that is going on in the world under a different lens. What if you were to step back and instead of focusing on the limitation you and...