by Lisa-Jo | Nov 8, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Family, Marriage, Motherhood
Monday mornings can come hard and dark and dreaded. I lie in bed and think about what Ann says about moments like these. Just do the next thing. Not the tenth thing down the list. Not anticipating the fifth, sixth, and seventh things all crashing down at once in a...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 4, 2010 | Family, Motherhood, Raising Boys
I can feel the flush start at my belly button and spread upwards. It comes with that tingly hot feeling and the irrational need to cry. By the time it reaches the roots of my hair I feel about fourteen, tongue-tied and awkward. But I push through. I refuse to...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 2, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a recovering “Lame Sponsor” with Compassion International. I have a checkered past when it comes to keeping up regular correspondence with the two boys we sponsor. To date, a five year old in Ghana has been out-writing me! That all...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 1, 2010 | Callings, Family, Motherhood
My mom was a terrible cook. I mean, just awful. Most of my meal-related memories involve her dashing from the bedroom where she’d got caught up in a book and shrieking in horror at boiled over veggies, burnt potatoes or overdone everything. She’d turn off...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 28, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood
God knits babies together in the secret dark. Small wonder that to get a glimpse into their world we need to go into darkened rooms lit only by a flickering screen to read what we can of who they are becoming. But He already knows. He already delights. He has already...
