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...
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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 26, 2010 | (in)courage, Blogging, Callings, Faith
Loneliness is an aching, breaking parting of the heart and the ways as the days drift into the dark of American night after night and I sigh and miss the deep blue, black African sky. I have been homesick as long as I can remember. I have lived in South Africa and...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 19, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Faith
Remember those “word association” games? When someone says a word and you say the first thing that comes into your mind. For example, if I say “peanut butter.” You’d probably say, “jelly.” (Unless you’re British or South African, in which case you’d probably say jam....
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 30, 2010 | Callings, Family
To the moms who rock and sway and dance their babies to sleep. Who swaddle and sing and stroke brand new skin through half closed eyes only to rise for 6am toddlers. To the dads who strap their kids to their backs and walk the afternoon sunshine while mommy naps. To...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 20, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Compassion, Faith, Travel
Click to hear an audio recording of: “Why I Sing in the Dark” by Lisa-Jo, The Gypsy Mama Sometimes a song drops into your soul. And it’s as warm as the sun shining out of the chaos at midnight as a friend tic, tack, toe types beauty out of bedlam by the...
