by Lisa-Jo | Aug 13, 2015 | (in)courage, Faith
I’m a lifelong Sunday School girl, and I grew up singing the old hymn, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” There’s one line that lingers in my head these days as the mornings come crashing down on me, and with them that old, familiar ache of fear, or...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 5, 2015 | Cheering for you, Faith, Ordinary Glory, Travel
My kids love to hear stories from when we were kids. My son, Jackson, is constantly complaining that we, “don’t tell him enough stuff about you guys.” So, more and more I find myself consciously dipping into my memory bank to unload some of the...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 13, 2015 | (in)courage, Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Girlfriends
I’ve been the community manager at (in)courage now for five years. That means five years of working with and for and alongside women. Writing about women, reading about women, talking to women, in small groups of women, and for large groups of women. I...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 4, 2015 | Blogging, Faith, No such thing as just a mom, South Africa
So you know how I told you that 25% of all sales from my friend, Crystal’s new Make Over Your Mornings course that launched on Tuesday would be donated to South Africa? And you know how her big goal was to raise $14,000 so we could fully fund a two-classroom...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 3, 2015 | Cheering for you, Faith, Just plain hard
My kids don’t wake me up at night anymore for milk. Or to get a diaper changed. When they wake me now it’s because they’ve had a nightmare and the darkness is suffocating them. And at 2 in the morning a small, timid voice will appear at the head of...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 10, 2015 | Faith, Ordinary Glory
I pray at the kitchen sink more than anywhere else. I think it’s something to do with the soothing warm water and the fact that washing dishes is a focused task. Compared to, say, cleaning up the living room, which has me rabbit trailing between toys and books and the...
