Introducing Our Winter Bloom Selection
It is hard to believe that 2015 marks the sixth year Angie and I have done Bloom. I still remember reading her blog post that said, I’m going to start a book club and promptly calling her up and...
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The Fringe Hours: Free Printable
I am so excited for us to begin our study of The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You next week. Thank you for joining us. The Fringe Hours is not a book about doing more, it’s a book about being more –...
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A Reminder to Savor
I had a baby New Year’s Eve. Every day this year, I have held that little boy, breathing him in slowly. I have studied his features intently, taking in everything from the hairs on his head to his ten...
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It’s Never Too Late to Make a Resolution
A few weeks ago, I pulled my phone out of my purse and was surprised to see a voice mail from Beth, an old colleague and friend. We had worked together for many years, but as our career paths...
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A Call to Be Intentional in Our Friendships
Summer is a season of long sunshine-filled days — memories at the pool and time spent with friends. I don’t know what it is about summer that means more when it comes to friendship, but I love it....
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The Beauty Around Us
Lately, I have been really busy. You know that kind of busy where you feel like you can barely keep your head above water? The school year starting. New projects at work. Three kids. Life. I realized...
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Now or Never: Using Your Words to Love
Last Sunday I sent a text message during church. Don’t judge. My pastor Pete told me to. You see, we are in the middle of this series called Now or Never, where we are talking about living a life...
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6 Ways to Make Time for You During the Holidays
With just over a week until Christmas, I’ve been feeling a bit frantic. I haven’t wrapped a single gift, my beautiful cards’ envelopes are still unlicked and unstamped, and I still want our family to...
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Find Time for You in 2016
Do you ever get to the end of your day and realize you did nothing for you? Folded laundry? Check. Wiped runny noses? Check. Prepared three meals? Check. But read that book you’ve been wanting to read?...
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5 Ways to Slow Down
I said to a friend the other day, “I’m at the bottom of my barrel. I must take a break.” I was talking about writing specifically, but really about life these days. For the past 14 months, I have...
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A Call to Thrive and Love Our Neighbors Well
On the second day of this year, we threw a party for my son, Ezra, who’d just turned one. Metallic streamers and three-dimensional gold stars hung all over the dining room to celebrate “twinkle,...
View ArticleThree Ways to Thrive in Busy Seasons
Growing up, I was involved in a lot of extracurricular activities including the school newspaper, yearbook, plays and musicals, forensics, student council, and more. If you look in the yearbook from my...
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A Call for Working Moms to Stop Living Stretched Too Thin
Today, we’re celebrating with (in)courage mentor and book club co-founder Jessica Turner as she releases a brand new hardback, Stretched Too Thin: How Working Moms Can Lose the Guilt, Work Smarter, and...
View ArticleThree Ways to Foster Community at Work
In college, I was one of those people that was always doing something with friends. I was in volunteer organizations. I was an RA and planned events for my residents. I would study at the library in...
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When I Pray for You: a Parent’s Heartbeat
My second child is a little girl, and I joke that she has been strong-willed and stubborn from her earliest days in my womb. I was incredibly sick during that pregnancy, throwing up sometimes six times...
View ArticleSix Ways to Show up for a Friend
So far, this year has been met with incredible suffering for some friends that I love: a parent’s death, a broken marriage, a cancer diagnosis, a hospitalized family member. Each day I think, When will...
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