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Rachelle and Joe are Here!
We are so enjoying our visit with Joe and his beautiful fiance, Rachelle. (Joe, you may recall, is the ONLY reason why my video series, Living the Gospel in Relationships, EXISTS. He labored for hundreds and hundreds of hours, unpaid, to complete all of the post-production and editing of the series. Without him the project never would have gotten started and it NEVER would’ve been completed.) (Plus, Joe is just a dear, dear friend who never fails to make Fred and me laugh. 🙂 ) Here are some pics from our day … Fun stuff! We’re hoping to make it to West Yellowstone on Wednesday, but these record cold…
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Bad Relationships End in Cravings
My friend and I are continuing to work through Ed Welch’s addictions curriculum, “Crossroads”. It is definitely worth the read, especially if you appreciated his book, “Addictions: A Banquet at the Grave”, if you struggle with an addiction, and/or if you know and love someone who struggles with an addiction. Today’s lesson included two quotes (one in the facilitator’s guide and the other in the basic material) that I wanted to share with you: “Are you frustrated with someone? Don’t bury it. Someday it will come out as a craving for your addiction.” “Bad relationships left to stew and ferment end in cravings.” Isn’t that SO true? Even if you…
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Sure I Have Forgiven You — But Now I Know Not to Trust You. Ever.
Without getting into the complexities of major offenses (involving criminal activities, civil authorities, etc.) … Thinking only of the relatively mundane (but truly hurtful!) real-life conflicts that we all face in our workplaces, marriages, parenting, friendships, churches, schools, etc …Have you ever thought (or even SAID) something like this? “Sure. I forgive you. You bet. No problem. [But NOW I know the REAL YOU and I know to never EVER be real with you or trust you again.]” It’s almost as though we know we “HAVE TO” forgive, so we offer some token “Christian” words. But all the while, we are closing down our hearts. Tight. Locked. “You can’t hurt…
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Required to Do What I Cannot Do
Today I had a very uncomfortable few hours wherein I wrestled with this reality: I was being required to do something that I simply could not do. It wasn’t immoral or illegal. (Thank God! I’d had THAT situation erupt as a first year associate attorney back in Chicago and I have to say, it’s shocking and horrible when you have to face that, “How will I respond?!?” question re: ethics / convictions / and your ability to pay back $73,000 in grad school loans. I chose to walk away, of course. But it was a frightening / the room is SPINNING / who am I REALLY kind of moment.) Today…
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Suspicious of His Theology
‘If a person has impeccable theology but no love and no joy, I am suspicious of his theology. He hasn’t understood the first thing.’ Andree Seu
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Pioneer Woman
I’ve only poked around for 2 minutes, so I have no idea if there is objectionable stuff … so caveat emptor! But thanks to CakeWrecks, I enjoyed stumbling onto this website/blog and I’m hoping to read more whenever (if ever?) have a few minutes to poke around and read things like blogs: The Pioneer Woman
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Iowa Orders are ALL Packed Up!
I just finished packing up ALL of the remaining orders from Iowa … so hopefully you will be receiving them before too long. Only one week late! I’m glad to get them in the mail to you. PLEASE let me know if I made any errors. My brain is very fuzzy these days and I promise to do everything I can to fix things ASAP if I’ve messed anything up. I’m going to pack Fred for his trip to the Peacemaker Conference now and then hopefully get a little sleep tonight. I would really appreciate your prayers for my mom as she found out today that she has to have…
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Narrowly Avoided a Fourth Surgery Today …
I’m hesitant to even mention this because I feel like such a hypochondriac. But my friend reminded me today that if you actually have real things wrong with you, you’re not a hypochondriac. SO … I guess I’m just a falling apart HIGH MAINTENANCE woman because today I just barely avoided being sent in for what would’ve been my fourth surgery of the summer. Blech! Apparently, my body felt like giving me one tiny (but painful and inconvenient because of all of the blood) little challenge called a pyogenic granuloma. It’s just a little (but growing) thingy (official medical term is “growth”) that bleeds and bleeds and SHOULDN’T be painful,…
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Sorry for the Delay, Iowa!
Just a quick note to the 97 of you from Iowa who placed orders with me this past weekend … I am SO very sorry to have to let you know that for some of you, there will be a tiny delay even for the orders that don’t include that way-too-popular-5-CD-set I mentioned was already completely sold out of on Saturday. I worked into the night and was at the post office as soon as they opened this morning—and I was able to ship SOME of your orders. But Peacemakers just emailed me and told me that now they TOO will be delayed in getting me your resources. (I feel…
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Thanks Iowa!
It was a true joy to be with you all, dear Iowa women! I’m working hard to type up your shipping labels and will send them as soon as I possibly can. Thanks for a wonderful weekend! Yours, Tara B.
