Sitting At Rock Bottom
Rock Bottom : the point of being at your very lowest. While it is a myth that recovery only occurs once rock bottom has been reached, for...
Say It Out Loud
It has been a while since I addressed eating disorder recovery. So I figured it was about time for another post. If you asked me what I...
The Waltz of Marriage
Submission [n] the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person. Do those words make you cringe? What if I told you that submission is a fundamental part of biblical marriage? Ephesians 5: 22-27 “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit
David & Goliath
Change [v] make someone or something different; alter or modify. [n] the act or instance of making or becoming different. Last Friday my husband and I climbed into our loaded vehicles and made the 7.5-hour drive to our new home: Fredericksburg Virginia. We drove through the flat roads of Ohio, cruised across bridges and boarders, winded through the mountains, and finally sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic before crossing the finish line to our home. Sunshine and warm weather gre
Waiting for Him
It is Saturday, the sun is shining and Bodi and I are hanging out at the house. Micah left in the wee hours of the morning for work and will not return until dark. The whole day is ahead of us, full of empty time waiting to be embraced. What to do... what to do.... I miss Micah, I await his return with eagerness, but the hours will tick by wasted if I simply sit by the door and stare at the clock. There is work to be done. There are things to accomplish in the waiting. I hav
Lost At Sea
Mental Illness. It reminds me of an ocean. It is vast and overwhelming, scientists are just now starting to explore the depths of all that it is and all that it contains. It is powerful, just as lapping waves slowly shape the shore, mental illness slowly changes who you are, how you think, and how you respond. Many have set out on the sea and lost their lives along the way, caught in the waves. It is deep, reaching thousands of miles, just as mental illness is deeply rooted i
