I don’t know about you, but I spend a considerable amount of my energy fending off my feelings. I put myself down for feeling, I push little Bethany to put on her big-girl panties and deal with it. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, I tell myself. The truth, however, is that all my emphasis […]
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may be.” –May Sarton I have been thinking about fear. A lot. At our wonderful social-justice obsessed church, our pastor is doing a series on fear, and this coming Sunday I’m going to do the children’s time talk about “the fear of […]
For Lent I’ve given up perfectionism. From March 1 to April 15 this year I am giving up on straight A’s. I’m giving up my great love of A’s and the A’s that I always dreamed my daughters would care about (yet don’t). No A’s for perfectly good behavior, either. I’m embracing being the good-enough […]
I don’t have very much time this morning, as I am heading over to see my mother today—in good Hobbit tradition, I am giving her a bunch of flowers and a present. I was also thinking that a blog post is a sort of present, a way I could give all of you a present […]