Christian life

  • Christian life,  encouragement

    Look Up!

    Have you ever taken a walk, and realized that you never even saw the scenery? You went out to take in the outdoors, and all you saw was….your feet? I’ve done that more times than I can remember. You could have walked past me and I wouldn’t have even realized it.   Why do we get like that? For me, it’s when I’m too wrapped up inside my own head. Maybe it’s a concern I have that I’m wrestling; I’m turning it every which way to come up with a ‘fix.’ Sometimes I’m in my own head because I’m experiencing guilt over something I did; I tend to want to…

  • celebrate,  Christian life,  encouragement,  motherhood,  Parenting

    How to Stop Missing Out on Your Good Life

    I’m currently obsessing about my weight- the 20 extra pounds I’ve found somewhere in the last couple of years.  Can anyone relate? I can have ten really amazing things going on in my life, but if there is one annoying thing (like 20 pounds) in my life, it’s like a fly buzzing around my head- – -constant and irritating, it distracts from all the things I should be enjoying. It seems like at any given time, there is one….or two….or four things that take up too much time and space in my mind. We all go through seasons, and the THING changes, but the distraction remains. It could be a season…