by Lisa-Jo | Feb 16, 2015 | Faith, Like a Girl, South Africa, Take Action
Sometimes the news and our lives are hard and heart-breaking and filled with disappointment. Especially on a day like Valentine’s that comes with so much built-in disappointment. And then sometimes you open your email and amidst all the darkness a bright light...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 10, 2014 | Christmas, Faith
Click here to listen the the audio recording of this post – a Christmas story for you as told by me. Christmas tells the once upon a time story of what happened when the whole earth and every person on it had been waiting. Waiting with bated breath and broken...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 8, 2014 | Blogging, Faith, Just plain hard, South Africa
I don’t know about you, but there have been so many days lately when the world feels hurt and broken and tired. And we feel hurt and broken and tired. And I want to just bury my face in Zoe’s blonde tangles and sniff in all the wonder that went missing...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 2, 2014 | (in)courage, Christmas, Faith
My kids wait to be allowed to eat the candy off their newly constructed gingerbread houses. I wait in car pool lines and at bus stops. I wait at the DMV, the grocery store check out aisle and the garage. I wait in dentist’s offices and at baseball practices. I...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 24, 2014 | Christmas, Faith, Family
By this time last year, I’d gained a little holiday weight already. Several pounds of dissatisfaction had settled onto the hips of my heart. This time of year there are so many rich lies about what you need to fill you up. The holiday season seems to be a...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 12, 2014 | Faith, Family, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
So I don’t typically write about porn around here. OK, I don’t write about porn ever. Period. Much wiser women and men have addressed it and I’m not particularly keen on the idea of stepping into a big ol’ anthill of opinions. But when...
