The Seven Year Sifter: Keeping Friendships Purposeful Past Their “Prime” – I have read this post a couple times and I know I will read it again. Friendships and people are intensely important to me and things like growing up and living in three different states so far makes this post so difficult yet so relevant and helpful!
To Moms of One or Two Children from a Mother of Five – I love this!! So helpful and practical regardless of how many children you have. I also love it because it seems like in some circles there is definitely the comparison that if you only have one child you have it easy or it isn’t as hard.
Fatigue is not a Sin – “We need Him when we’re supermoms; we need Him when we’re tired.”
I began collecting some resources that were encouraging as I was going through everything and processing things. I hope that these are encouraging to you as well! (Note: I don’t necessarily endorse the authors overall. These specific posts, books, or portions thereof were just very encouraging and helpful to me!)
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It’s Not My Job to Make You Like Me – You are not responsible for how people perceive you. Your responsibility is to love. Such a good article for a people-pleaser like me!
Unnecessary Quotes – If you want to waste a few minutes of your day, check this link out. You will either get a good chuckle or just shake your head in confusion. Or quite possibly both. 🙂
Well, apparently it is now 2015! I could fill this post with all the cliches about how quickly time passes, and how unbelievable it is that a new year is starting. But while all that is insanely true, I will forego those points.
2014 was a crazy year for me. Full of…a lot. I have grown in some incredible ways that I never would have foreseen. I have quite a few blog posts stored up that I am hoping to share. My journey has been incredibly personal and I am hesitant to share some posts. At the same time…this journey has defined me and made me who I am today. And if anything I have to share could be of benefit to someone else, it makes it worth it to me.
So I ask that you bear with me this year as I open up and share some of what God has been teaching me. Please extend grace toward my difficulties, which I feel are rarely talked about in the church.
I pray that this year will be one of great growth. Continued growth for me spiritually and as an individual. Growth for this blog (so excited to finally get my own domain and my new awesome theme!). And I pray that some of my posts might be somehow used by God to bless and encourage a reader.
So Happy 2015!! Embrace the changes that this year will bring in your life!
Hi friends! Just wanted to stop on real quick to say that I am going to be taking a blogging break.
Things have been pretty upside down here lately and I need to just step back and let things settle a bit. I am hoping that once we get moved into our new house, I will have some time to spend writing some posts about things that have been on my mind.
I’m not sure how long of a break it will be, but I definitely plan to be back and posting by the new year. I have several specific topics that I am both excited and nervous about. 🙂 If you haven’t subscribed to our blog, feel free to do so on the right hand side so you can be notified when we start back up again!
So you might have noticed some changes around here…namely a few name changes. My wonderful husband will now be known as The Pilot and our sweet son as The Wingman.
There are 3 reasons for this.
First….The Pilot is about to embark on some new training that is required for most military. It is a very intense program that prepares them for deployments and the worst case scenario of getting shot down or otherwise captured. For this training it is recommended to go into incognito mode on the internet so that the trainers can’t find their personal information to potentially use against them.
Second…military safety in general. Maybe I’m paranoid, but I also can’t get that voice out of my head that is screaming Op Sec over and over. Typically, that mostly refers to not posting specific dates or places, particularly as relating to deployments. But I have followed military spouse blogs for years and time and time again they have posted about security on their blogs. Many of them have opted out of using real names as well.
Third…internet safety in general. Again, I could just be paranoid. The chances of our family being followed or of someone stealing our identities through our blog is slim. But there are the horror stories of that happening.
I debated whether or not changing the names would really matter that much or make much of a difference. Perhaps sometime in the future I will go back to using their names. But for now we are utilizing these (adorable) pseudonyms. 🙂
Invincible – “I wanted to be everyone’s sun, moon, and guiding stars. I wanted their day to be complete because they talked to me, or their life to be full because I, Bethany, was in it. I wanted to bring the joy and light to their existence. If I failed in some way, their whole world might come apart, because I was so vital and necessary! Horrors!”
4 Lies the Church Taught Me About Sex – “I don’t regret waiting until I was married to have sex, and I’m not advocating that churches stop teaching that sex is designed for marriage. But I do think there is something seriously wrong with the way we’ve handled the conversation.”
Living in a Loveless Marriage – A great post about what to do when you have fallen or are starting to fall out of love with your spouse.
Why I Don’t Mock Other Moms Anymore – “When we’re mocking others, we’re caught up in how we feel. We forget how they feel…. We forget that they have complicated lives and complicated reasons for the decisions that they make.”
Am I Enough? – Sometimes being a Mom is very hard and overwhelming. But then I think about how much I cried and prayed before we got pregnant.
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