by Elisabeth | May 30, 2017 | businessy stuff, redemption, wholeness, writing
It’s that time of year when I take a few months off from weekly blogging. You will not be left alone, though, as I’ve recruited a handful of my readers to share their stories every Friday through the end of August. So, please enjoy those words of authentic...
by Elisabeth | May 23, 2017 | emotions, faith, healing, heart, pain, wholeness
I don’t know anyone who would say their life is perfect, who has everything they’ve ever wanted relationally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, all at the same time. There is no perfect life. Most of us, for the most part, swing back and forth between...
by Elisabeth | May 9, 2017 | holidays, parenting, wholeness
work: effort directed to produce or accomplish something NOT work: when you get paid to do something also NOT work: when you leave your house and drive to an office I spent about twenty years with my primary focus being two little people. I diapered them. I breastfed...
by Elisabeth | May 2, 2017 | abuse, emotions, healing, heart, judgment, pain, wholeness
I’ve always felt just a tad less normal than most people. Less put together. Way needier. A huge disappointment. Less capable of taking care of myself. Not a grown-up. Weak. Lazy. Pretty much a screw-up. As if every day, at the end of my day, I could do a mental...
by Elisabeth | Apr 25, 2017 | emotions, faith, healing, heart, pain, wholeness
Back when my first marriage was hanging by a thread, had someone said to me, We need you to agree to the following: eight adults will know every detail of your life and marriage; you will have to meet with two counselors, two mentors and a mediator weekly, along with...
by Elisabeth | Apr 18, 2017 | abuse, dating, difficult marriage, divorce, pain, remarriage, wholeness
I received an email that said, basically, I married a man I shouldn’t have married. There were red flags and I married him out of my loneliness. And now it’s really bad and I don’t know what to do. First of all, let me say, I am so very sorry. I am sorry that you are...
