Are you wondering if God has forgotten about you? He hasn't. Not ever.
If God were to send you a message, I think He’d write something like the words in this note.
Your Ducks Can Wait
Man, oh man. It was one of those nightmares that you just can’t wake up from. That night, mine didn’t include falling off cliffs and people weren’t chasing me with chainsaws. This bad dream seemed more “everyday.” In my nightmare that never seemed to end, I was at a conference in a very large convention center. I had gotten separated from my group and I was frantically wandering hallways and stairwells to try and find someone I knew. My purse had been stolen, along with my cell
Don’t Let Jack Pop Your Peace
Hey, hi. There’s encouragement here for YOU today. Scoot your chair up. Slip on your reading glasses. Mute the TV. I don’t want you to miss this. ❤️ Discouragement can show up at the most inopportune times, can’t it? Not that there’s ever a good time for discouragement, but has this happened to you? Life seems to be humming along, no crisis in sight, and then—POP! Like a Jack-in-the-box, a frustration, disappointment, or sad memory jumps right out in front of you. And suddenly, Pop Goes the
Let’s Meet Over Here!
Hey, hi! I’m sharing a little lake story with you today from my YouTube channel! It involves 10-year-old me, a canoe, a storm, half a lake up my nose, and a lifeguard standing safely on shore with her clipboard. Things were not going well. Watch the video, look around my channel, and if these little bits of encouragement feel like something you’d like more of, I’d love it if you’d subscribe. I love meeting you here in your inbox so much. Now we have another place to
Set For the Season
Football season has arrived, which means I’m once again entertaining the possibility that this could be my beloved Minnesota Vikings’ year. I even have the T-shirt: “Optimistic since 1961.” At this point, optimism may be my spiritual gift. I. Love. Football. Even if you’d rather have a root canal than watch grown men shove each other onto green turf, stick with me. This really isn’t about football. In every single moment of the game, they are moving and blocking and passing and running…intentionally. During every play, each
Well, I Didn’t Write That Part
I love to read. And memoirs are at the top of my list. My favorites are typically written by a not-so-young woman whose story reads something like this… Her life was filled with hope-filled dreams. Exciting expectations. Blue skies and sun-filled days. She had energy that made skipping in her summer slip-ons easy-peasy. Then life happened. Her skies got cloudy. Disappointment replaced those dreams. Skipping was totally out of the question. Frankly, some days putting on the slip-ons felt like enough. The next section of her memoir
Notes From My Emergency Board Meeting
So, I had a little meeting with myself this afternoon. Kind of like an emergency board meeting when something is bubbling up that needs to be addressed right away by those responsible for overseeing all things, before the situation gets out of control and does more damage. Since I’m CEO and chief overseer of my life, I scheduled the meeting, put myself on the agenda, prepared a snack (chips and salsa), and called the meeting to order. The agenda item? Moving out of the swirl and finding
When Life Hands You Lutefisk
My sisters and I were walking the beach, lathering up with sunscreen like it was our part-time job, and letting the rhythm of the waves do their slow-down, soul-soothing work. One afternoon, while we were sunk low in our little beach chairs, feet buried in warm sand, sun visors tilted at just the right angle, Julie turned to me and said, “Wouldn’t a bologna sandwich taste good right now?” I hadn’t thought about bologna sandwiches in years. But just like that, I was transported back to sitting
☀️ Saving My Summer
“The summer is almost over!” (Exclaimed with a bit of tension and surprise.) Have you been hearing that lately? Me too. And every time I hear it, a tiny panic button goes off in my heart. Wait. Did I miss it? Am I behind on summer? Which is a ridiculous sentence, really. But it can still feel true, right? Because suddenly there’s this pressure to fill every waking moment with something summery. Get to the lake. Have the picnic. Float down the river. Attend the outdoor concert.
God Meets Us at The List
“Domestic Goddess” will never be my title. Becoming Suzy Homemaker is a dream. (More often, my experience is a nightmare.) Every time I cook, I pray that nobody dies from the food I’ve just prepared. So a list of to-do’s (The List) that involves cleaning, shopping, and cooking snatches me away from my happy place. It’s a list of things I don’t consider fun. Sometimes, I put pretty blue bullets next to each group of words on The List to make it a bit more energizing. (Yeah,
A New Place to Meet Me
I’ve been praying about another way to tuck a little encouragement into your day. Another place where we could meet up for a few minutes and remember that God is still at work in our real, everyday lives. Well…I finally pushed past my comfort zone and did it. I’ve started a YouTube channel. (Cue the confetti and a picture of my very nervous face!) When I sit down to record these videos, I picture you. The woman who’s hanging in there through a hard season. The woman
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