The Edge of the Divine: A Review

Recently, I was asked if I would review Sandi Patty’s new book, The Edge of the Divine. I don’t often do reviews, but I decided to check out Sandi Patty’s website and saw that her upcoming CD has a hymn that I love. I love a good hymn. Have I said that? It’s true. Gets me [...]

Trading

I’m just finishing Beth Moore’s Esther study and it has come at a great time. I’ve always enjoyed Esther, but I’ve gained new insights this time around for which I am so thankful. In yesterday’s assignment, she pointed out how God flip-flopped the circumstances for the Jews in Persia completely. Haman wrote an edict intended [...]

Need sleep advice. Not for babies. For me.

So uh, here’s the deal. Sleep escapes me. I think 10 years of waking up in the night with small children has done me in. Often, I wake up at 1 or 2 and can’t go back to sleep. Frustrating. I don’t like medication (not for any reason other than…well, there really is no reason), [...]

It’s what paralyzes me

I saw this quote the other day: Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~Harriet Braiker Then I found this one, In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ~Hannah Arendt and this one, Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is [...]

An alive chicken

It’s June. Yowza! Where has this year gone? I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off…but unlike the chicken, I haven’t felt this alive in a long, long time. I am inexplicably grateful. I feel like I am living Psalm 40:1-3a in technicolor: I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined [...]

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