by Lisa-Jo | Jan 7, 2015 | (in)courage, Cheering for you
Want to know what’s unnerving? Writing about your insecurities. But sometimes writing them down is the first step to unraveling them. This month at (in)courage we’re doing a series about insecurity. And speaking God’s truth into the lie of our own...
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 | Oct 20, 2014 | (in)courage, Callings, Cheering for you, No such thing as just a mom
I’ve heard the whispers. The rumblings. The women who pull me aside to share with shy and embarrassed eyes this worry that what you do doesn’t count because you do it at 2am when no one is looking except the baby who’s throwing up. Again. Or because...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 9, 2014 | (in)courage, Just plain hard, Rabid fear of parenting, Raising Boys
He stares at me from the back seat with eyes hot, red, determined, defiant and desperate to be understood. I stare at him through the rear view mirror with eyes that echo his own blue exactly and match his mood perfectly. I am just as angry as he is. The only...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 2, 2014 | (in)courage, Blogging
We spent six days in northern Michigan lake country with no Internet, cell or data connection. No suffocating sense of competition or comparison either. Gets a girl thinking real hard about this online space we all spend so much time in. And wondering how to carve out...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 19, 2014 | (in)courage, Cheering for you, Love the body you've got
My kids officially smell of summer. And to me summer smells like sunscreen. From the moment the gates of our community pool crank back open again, our kids will swim, dive, splash, lather, laugh, lick ice cream and live at the pool. And I know for many of us, that is...
