Month: July 2020
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The Storm
Mondays. Ugh. Those are the toughest days of the week. So many phone calls come in along with countless emails and text messages. The phone becomes a never-ending “ding-fest: as it delivers notifications of the messages etc. that are flying in. Sometimes it seems like it will be impossible to get all of her work…
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Multitasking Schmultitasking
Why is multitasking celebrated? Multitasking basically makes you do a really crappy job at a whole bunch of things all at the same time. Half-assed, as my dad would say. 😉 I believe that if you want to do something right and with love, you have to give it your full attention. It is that…
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2 Miles and 5 Pound Weights
Round 2: Surviving Blood Clots Once Again Learning to Listen Who would have thought that walking 2 miles with no incline would kick my butt and wear me out? My newly damaged lungs and tired body are a far cry from where they were just a few short months ago. It is challenging, this slowing…
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My Penny Shaker
I have a tin can filled with pennies that I have been using to train the new puppy. When she is a pill or doing something that she is not supposed to do, I fervently shake my penny can and the behavior is immediately stopped. It is super effective. It is just a tin can…
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Jen Version 21.0
My thoughts for this morning… When we face tribulation, misfortune, adversity and set-backs, our natural inclination is to want God to just take it all away. We don’t want to hurt. We don’t want to struggle. We don’t want our lives interrupted. Our inherent tendency is to ask, “WHY?…Why me?” That is our self-sufficient identity…
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A peaceful morning
In the stillness of the morning before dawn, my mind awakes first before my body is fully aware of it. The dogs begin to stir as they begin to sense my restlessness and Bella comes over and licks my face a few times. I hate it and love it at the same time. I convince…
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Psalm for Life
Sometimes when I can’t sleep, I put my headphones on and I listen to poems that I have downloaded on my Audible app. I listen to Rumi, Donohue, Longfellow, Gibran and Whitman and they lull me to into a comfortable slumber. Most times, quite honestly, I don’t remember a damn thing about what they said,…
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Becoming Weak to Become Strong
This past week, I went to the Hematologist for my post-hospital care. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I was pretty disappointed with the news I heard regarding what it will take for my recovery. For those of you who know me, you know that for the past 10 years, I have been…
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Chaos
Stop worrying. Hear His voice. Quiet your mind. Relax. Think His thoughts. Don’t let your mind wander. Be present. Don’t conform to the patterns of this world. Seek His face. Trust Him with ALL of your thoughts. Be thankful regardless of the circumstances. When you feel the clatter of the chaos in the world we…
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I don’t want to be a dude…
Here’s something that I have been thinking about lately, where I KNOW I am not the only woman that struggles with this paradox. How can an alpha woman balance both her masculine side and her feminine side? How can we embrace both sides of us so that one doesn’t overtake the other? My personality is…