Hymns, Holidays, and Helping
A combination of listening to positive music and saying encouraging words with simple statements that you (and your family) can singalong to.
Category: Inspirational
Anchor Hold
“I made it through bootcamp, I can make it through this” has become my mantra in tough times. I use the strength I gained from that experience as an anchor.
I Couldn’t Keep Up
There will always be a metric to measure success and find ourselves not good enough. Here’s to simply being ourselves instead!
Powerful Words
Is there a way to harness the power of music to help us hold onto the good stuff longer?
Here comes the pretty part…
We wouldn’t appreciate the “pretty” parts if it wasn’t for the difficult parts.
Good News! A lesson in Release
I was holding so tightly to the way I thought this had to happen. I started to think I had control over the outcome.
No sense of direction
After leaving an awesome conference in Columbia, SC I planned to meet up with my husband and start our anniversary road trip.
My husband flew into Charleston.
I drove to pick him up…..in Charlotte.
So clearly not knowing where I’m going is something that crops up in many areas of my life. And yet it doesn’t stop me from driving around….
In my defense I was exhausted, the first 5 letters of both cities are the same, and they are both an hour and a half away from Columbia.
Thankfully my husband saw the humor in it (eventually) and we had an excellent vacation once I found him.
Trust me, I’m an excellent driver…..I just need to be pointed in the right direction.
Sometimes multiple times.
And maybe that’s what life is teaching me. All I need to do is create, and allow the idea to point me in the right direction.
Giggles, Fits, Everything Else
While visiting a friend this week, it was time for her daughter to take a nap.
The child began to scream and cry because she wasn’t ready to take a nap, claimed she didn’t need one, and pleaded to stay up longer.
I was holding back a giggle because the very thing she was doing (throwing a fit) was a huge sign that she was indeed exhausted and needed a nap!
This got me started thinking about my reactions to all the setbacks, detours, and dead ends I’ve faced in life. How many times have I pitched a fit because things didn’t go my way, thereby proving I wasn’t ready for that thing in the first place?
More than I’d like to admit.
On a related note, last week I shared about our long road to becoming parents…and the fact that we’re still not there yet. (If you missed it, you can read it here.)
It was so helpful to hear that many of you are in the middle of waiting on something too.
God IS blessing you, even in the waiting,
