by Lisa-Jo | Sep 10, 2015 | (in)courage, Cheering for you, Girlfriends, Ordinary Glory, Our First House, Sunday
Sunday afternoons are messy at our house. And I like them that way. (If you follow me on Instagram you’ve probably noticed). We’ve usually let the weekend play around us with all its Legos and dolls and light sabers and blanket forts and left over pizza. We’ve...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 1, 2015 | (in)courage, Girlfriends
Sometimes I all too aware that conversations can go like this: Friend: Gah, I’m so sad today. I feel stupid and dumb at my job and there’s this weird nagging loneliness I can’t seem to shake. Me: (internally thinking: Oh man, I know EXACTLY how that feels – this week...
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 | 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 5, 2015 | (in)courage, Ordinary Glory
It’s ridiculous really how much of our lives we consider “ordinary.” My oldest crept into bed next to me the other night because Wednesdays are the nights we offer an open call in our bed. This is mostly to try and keep them out of it all the other nights. So...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 26, 2015 | (in)courage, Cheering for you, Girlfriends
This past week our family was so sick we couldn’t see straight. It was a 72-hour marathon of toilets and buckets and bowls, and the laundry running round the clock on repeat. One by one I watched each kid succumb until it was finally my turn. Pete was the last...
