Blinking in the dim light, you awaken to the sound of the shower. Your husband is already up and getting ready for the day, and you lie in bed for a few minutes thinking about what your day holds. Thoughts of all you have to do begin to crowd into your mind and you feel stress…
“I’m really struggling right now. It’s never going to change. We’ll always be poor. I’ll never get a full night’s sleep. I don’t see any way it’s going to work out.” Are these statements really true? Probably not. But to be honest, these are thoughts that I’ve thought at one time or another. It took…
Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Regrets about what we should have done can overwhelm us. Life is an education, and all of us can look back and see things we wish we’d done differently. Moms especially can have a hard time with regrets. There is a time for asking forgiveness and a time for doing the best…
Funny thing about our surroundings. When we see the same scenery day after day, we stop seeing it. And we ignore the effects of our surroundings on our selves. Think about the pile of newspapers on the end table–a quiet, unassuming pile of a few days’ worth of newsprint. No big deal, right? But add…
Books are everything. Well, not everything, but that’s a cute saying these days (I’ve seen it on Instagram). I do love a good book, but I’ll confess that I read far more non-fiction than fiction. I’ve been reading more than usual these days, being laid up with a cast on my leg, and it occurred…
“I just don’t believe in myself.” “Others can, but it’s not for me.” “I just don’t think I can do it.” Sound familiar? Boy, these words are certainly familiar to me, because I said them to myself many times. There’s a line in a Dr. Seuss story that says “I said and said and said…
