Your Empty Room
/Today I walked by your bedroom door and peeked in, out of habit I suppose. I saw your neatly made bed and your empty desk. I saw the closet holding just a few remnants. The things you didn’t need for college.
Read MoreToday I walked by your bedroom door and peeked in, out of habit I suppose. I saw your neatly made bed and your empty desk. I saw the closet holding just a few remnants. The things you didn’t need for college.
Read MoreI ran the tape gun over the last box, pulled it tight, and cut it. I smoothed the tape and wrote with my black sharpie: Memories.
Read MoreI don’t have a bucket list. But if I did, jumping out of an airplane wouldn’t be on it.
Read MoreThese aren’t just words that look good on a Pinterest board of inspirational quotes. It’s a prayer that makes me tremble.
Read MoreOriginally published on Money Saving Mom
It was nearing dinner time, and the question kept drifting through the kitchen… “Mom, what’s for dinner?”
My answer was met with varying degrees of dissatisfaction. I was growing really frustrated when suddenly, I had an epiphany!
“I’m not buying groceries, or cooking at all next week!” I announced…
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Free fall is complete abandon. It’s full surrender to the one I’m strapped to, knowing He is trustworthy. It’s exhilarating and risky, and, wondrous. But oh so scary and I resist it, though it beckons me to freedom!
Read MoreWalking through WalMart, I passed a large Barbie display with this broadside banner, “I can be anything!” There were Barbies of all kinds, dressed according to their chosen professions: pilots, doctors, lawyers, athletes and more. I didn’t see a “Mommy” doll.
Read More…16 For the clean house, as the dirty one will not be long remembered; the moment has already come when both have been forgotten. How the children of a mommy will destroy her work in a moment!
Read MoreThough it seems that, when they were young, I was their life, now that they’re grown, they are my life. Elizabeth Stone could not have been more accurate when she said: “Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
Read MoreToday, my daddy would have turned 88 years old. A little over 3 years ago, he shed his earthly, broken vessel in exchange for a glorious new body. The day he went to heaven, I found out through a text from my brother. It said simply, “Daddy is dancing with Jesus.” I love to think of him that way still.
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