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…
“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…
Nobody’s perfect. We hear that statement all the time….but we act like we don’t believe it. It’s tempting to look at someone else and think they have it all together. That mom with the musical genius kids, the friend whose house is “always” clean, the lady who seems to effortlessly run a home business—looking in…
What do you want to be when you grow up? Someone asked my son this question when he was three years old. He looked sideways in deep thought and then responded, “A stranger.” He is grown up now and he is, indeed, a stranger to many people. After having twelve children and raising eight of…