Finding what you need to break through hopeless can feel impossible. When hopeless covers your heart, you don’t want to try anything – including trying to find the hope to breakthrough. Have you ever felt like hope was so far away that you just wanted to fade away? When I hit that point of hopeless,…
It takes hope and courage to fight fear. And you have to fight . . . for your right . . . Because fear tries everything in its bag of tricks to take control – and run you into a ditch. Fear is a sneaky little liar. It doesn’t knock on the door, announce itself,…
Getting stuck in a rut makes everything more challenging. For one, if you are as short as me, you can’t see anything from the rut perspective. For two, it’s hard to go your unique way when the rut demands its direction. Have you ever felt stuck in a rut? I got so stuck that I…
Sowing hope is required if you are going to grow hope. You can’t reap what you don’t sow. Listen to the GrowingHOPE Podcast all about Preparing for HOPE by clicking the play button. The Book of Job Shares Hope I like the Book of Job. It’s one of my favorite books when I’m reading through…
Preparing for hope keeps the moments of “lifey life” from sucking your heart dry. Listen to the GrowingHOPE Podcast all about Preparing for HOPE by clicking the play button. I Broke My Hope The last four years have been utter chaos for my life. It wasn’t working out and I was broken from all the…
Keep it together. That was the guidance Finnick offered Katniss when they were both trying to recover from their second bout in the Hunger Games (if you’ve never read the books, it’s well worth the investment). “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” (from Mockingjay)…
Choosing hope creates a foundation of possibilities and provides a path for my next step. But it is a choice. #QuoteoftheDay The roots of hopegrow intoa foundation of possibilities.– Kathryn Lang Crafting a Reality of Hope “Whatever the first three words you see are your reality.” I almost clicked the image my friend shared on…
We have to choose to hear to learn and grow. We have to listen when we dare to question. We can only hear the truth when we choose to listen to the answers. We hosted a homeschool gathering, which meant we had twenty-two children ranging from ages four to fifteen, plus half a dozen moms,…
The burden of light means we are called to show God to a world that often openly rejects Him. Being a light requires action that is driven by the light of Faith, and to use words only when absolutely necessary. We had a tough year. Your tough doesn’t compare to my tough, nor should it….
Reflections and HOPE for May 9, 2021 It’s a choice to keep going. When you want to quit, and things seem too hard to move forward, you have to choose to move anyway. When everything around you seems to be piling up against you, you have to make the choice. When the storms blacken the…