by Lisa-Jo | Mar 14, 2016 | Faith is Hard
Sometimes on Monday mornings you can look up and find yourself in what feels like a tiny dinghy surrounded by vast waters. And those waters are choppy. You get the kids off to school and you’re running on time and in good moods and then you have to walk back...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 7, 2016 | Family, Ordinary Glory
Often in blogging, as in life, we tend to think that if we don’t have something profound to say then it isn’t worth saying anything. I don’t know about you, but I battle that thought constantly. As in all. the. time. But my life isn’t...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 29, 2016 | (in)courage, Faith
The older I get the more I battle fear. And I know it’s because the older I get the more scary things I see in the world. The more marriages I’ve watched disintegrate, the more friends who’ve lost kids, the more diagnoses I’ve heard others fight through, the more...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 16, 2016 | Books you should read
…this is a guest post from a friend who knows what it’s like to feel trapped in your house and your skin and your stage in life. Thank you, Mary, for reminding us we’re not alone in those feelings. Sometimes I feel trapped in my own home, because I...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 9, 2016 | Can't Buy Me Love, Cheering for you
My friend, Stephanie, is a blind date expert. Not by choice. She spent several years going on a series of some of the funniest, weirdest, and most interesting blind dates. She wrote a book about it – I Was Blind (Dating), but Now I See, which chronicles some of...