Lucy Pevensie: They're so still. Trumpkin: The trees? What did you expect? Lucy Pevensie: They used to dance. From Prince Caspian How often is this a picture of us... of me...? At moments we dance and then at others we are so still and stoic. This quote has always been such a powerful statement to me. I recently re-read something that I had written several years ago and I was … [Read more...]
The moment when you feel, "its not YOU, it's ME," with your church, when there are no bad feelings and nothing happened but it's just time to move on. Since I started working full time Monday- Friday and the boys have been in pre-school, I have felt like I haven't got to spend enough time with them, this coupled with the fact that Ben works every Saturday until almost 5 and it seems like we … [Read more...]
As I fought back a torrent of tears earlier I realized how little I really let myself feel these days. Sure, there's the anxiety attacks that creep up and then grab me from behind like a friend yelling, "guess who?" in a cheerily delightful voice, but I drown them out speaking truth. Some times take longer than others. I have a friend who is dying from anerexia and I haven't seen her in awhile. … [Read more...]
The other day I was in Target and a woman felt like jumping into my life as I walked in the door with my 2 crazy boys. After frowning heavily at me and my friend I was shopping with, she obviously assumed we were lesbians and finished off her critical, verbal tirade looking at each of us with, "It's really not that hard to figure out what he [Bug] is trying to say." Implying me and my … [Read more...]
