Shanspirations

I just wanted to share something that encouraged me today. To see the whole post, visit Valerie’s blog, Life’s Good.
The thing about transition is, that it is painful. It is that transient time between conflict and resolution, that point of no-return, that time when it seems we are caught in a vortex, and being [...]

I love using visual imagery in my thoughts. It has been part of the way I naturally think for as long as I can remember. I used to not realize that many people don’t even think this way. My husband, for example, finds it an effort. He can glean some benefit [...]

Date: Thursday, February, 24, 2000
Place: Written at the apartment I shared with my mom and brother at Annie Lane
Background (the me I was then):
It had been 2 and a half years since Jacob and I had broken up (and that breakup had been painful). The breakup had occurred just as I was starting my [...]

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Place: Kitchen table of the apartment I shared my mom and brother at Annie Lane
Background (the me I was then): Sick with a cold that week. Single, working a job I really liked on the whole, but that wasn’t something I wanted to do forever and that also had aspects I [...]

As we’ve gone through a draining and difficult trial that has stretched into more than 4 months now, I’ve found myself looking back into my memories of other difficult times when God has sustained and strengthened me in my life. Some of the trials I think back on seemed terrible at the time, yet [...]