For the first time in a few years, I am living ALONE. As a single extroverted girl in my thirties, ALONE is a word I’ve learned to…well…dread. You know? As in, “I’ll be attending the wedding ALONE.” “Do you want to meet before church? I hate walking in ALONE.” “I went to the movie ALONE.” […]
It is CRAZY how many “church” songs I know. (Guess all those years in “sunday school”, youth group, summer camp, Young Life, and K-Life paid off?) Most days the songs simply lay dormant in my head. But sometimes I read or hear something – a verse, a quote, a conversation – that awakens them. And […]
Last night I started reading John Ortberg’s The Me I Want to Be. I am one chapter in…and already LOVING this book. Ortberg began by answering questions I didn’t even know I had. (He’s that smart.) For instance, I didn’t realize I was having a hard time discerning what a more Godly Lindsey looked like. […]
Yesterday, I shared a list of phrases that just seem to pop out of my mouth at any opportune silence. The phrases below, not so much. I have to be intentional each time I use them. And unfortunately I don’t say them enough. No. No. No. Noooooooo. I’m scared. I need help. I can’t do […]
I have several go-to phrases…things I say when I don’t know what else to say. Phrases that just subconsciously pop out of my mouth. And sometimes I get annoyed at the fact that I don’t have any self- restraint. That these words own me. Here are a handful…. Hilarious. You know what I mean? Right? […]
Original Disclaimer: Let me start off my saying I would never consider myself an activist on behalf of women’s rights. In fact, I generally consider myself in fairly conservative camp. Updated Disclaimer: This is obviously one of those posts where I did a TERRIBLE JOB of communicating what I wanted to get across: that the articles […]
I knew I was going to have a crazy busy spring. In fact, a few months ago, I wrote that Spring was going “to send my calm, serene existence sailing.” But I had no idea just how depleted this season would leave me. I could have never have predicted that in the midst of back-to-back […]
Just the other day I heard some “happy” news about someone I “love.” Although I mustered up a heartfelt congratulations what I really was feeling was…ugh…not so pretty. For a moment, I secretly wished I was a toddler so I could own an award-winning tantrum. (Picture me beating my fist against the floor and yelling […]
I am a planner. Maybe it is because responsibility is one of my strengths? Maybe it is because I am a control freak? Maybe it is because I want to make sure that I don’t miss out on anything? Regardless of why, I am a planner. I plan. It is what I do. Scarcely do […]
Yesterday was just another day, in a series of REALLY LONG DAYS. It was just a tactical conversation, really. A conversation about needing to consolidate my “stuff” in the garage. The thing that set me off. The final straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. I rushed into my temporary “home”, a room that is about […]
