by Lisa-Jo | Mar 28, 2016 | (in)courage, Cheering for you
What if you didn’t listen to the mean girl in your head today? What if, instead, you decided to be kind to yourself today? What if you looked in the mirror and smiled? Instead of counted gray hairs and wrinkles. What if you didn’t step onto the scale? What if,...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 24, 2016 | Faith is Hard
The thing I can never get over every Easter weekend is how this is the grittiest kidnap and ransom story. When Jesus walked into the Garden of Gethsemane He was delivering the ransom. Himself. For each of us. Kidnapped by sin and an accuser desperate for blood....
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 21, 2016 | Daughters, Rabid fear of parenting
Oh my daughter, there are so many things I never knew before you. Five years ago I never knew how much I would love glitter and sparkles and unicorns. I never knew how much beauty would be an ongoing conversation and a choice and an example I would have to live out...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 17, 2016 | Five Minute Friday
So, here’s the skinny: every Friday for nearly four years hundreds of people joined a kind of writing flash mob over here. We called it, Five Minute Friday. Because that’s the time limit we gave ourselves for each post. Each unedited, perfectly flawed post. Much...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 17, 2016 | Books you should read, Faith is Hard, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
Have you ever wanted to run away from home – as a mom? Addie Zierman has. And she did. This is what happened. The winter that I drove down to Florida alone with my two-and four-year-old sons was the one of the coldest on record. The polar vortex was arcing down,...
