I’m supposed to be writing my life story for our home study. It seems like I’ve done it a time or two before in college and high school, but I doubt I have copies of those. I thought maybe I could make a few blog posts out of stories from my childhood. It doesn’t appear [...]
I hate being depressed. Everything feels bad….and about most things I have no feelings at all. Someone tells me something that would usually make me laugh, and I can barely muster a smile. I feel numb the majority of the time…until those moments when I am overwhelmed with sadness, then the tears start to fall. [...]
For the last several years, I have given something up for Lent. Sometimes sweets, sometimes cokes, last year it was Facebook. This year, I couldn’t figure out what to do. Nothing felt right. I have been on a quest to lose weight for umpteen years now, so anything resembling that venue felt false to me, [...]
A few days ago, I was putting Elijah down for a nap. He was complaining about it, and said “I don’t want to be by myself in here. It’s just me and Jesus. Not you, not Noah, just me and that guy.” It made me laugh at the time (calling Jesus “that guy”), but once [...]
There’s a popular song on the radio right now that is about a girl who is telling one guy that the way he sees her isn’t the way another guy sees her. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a good song…very catchy lyrics, rocking beat. I felt like it didn’t really [...]
