this life's blessings

Finding Jesus in the messy, mundane, and miraculous.

my teenage heart

May 15, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

And the reality is that when I don’t spend time with Him I don’t have anything good in me, and I don’t have anything good to say.

giving the gift of words: dear mother.

January 30, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

One of my goals for this year is to be a better gift-giver. The word I chose for 2015 is presence, and a creative friend suggested it could be “presence and presents” as well. I love it. Done.

Tomorrow is my Mom’s birthday. I sent her a gift, don’t worry. But I think that the best gift I can give the people in my life is my honest words. So here we go.