Fear is something I’ve struggled with for most of my life. When I was 17, I was diagnosed with anxiety and panic attack disorder...
Blog Posts
Mid-Wife Crisis
His job felt important and exciting. Mine felt mundane and endless. His tasks felt missional. Mine felt meaningless...
In Love With Another Man
You might think this could be the happily-ever-after at the end of the story, but real life doesn’t work out that way. Instead, our life together that had begun down the aisle of “I do” began to swiftly trot towards the pathway of “I told you so”...
Hearing God’s Whispers
Sometimes we don't get the test results we were hoping for. But our state of worry revolves not on what our results say, but rather on how well we know our Heavenly Father's character...
82 Days: A Message From One Mother to Her Daughter Before She Walks the Aisle
by Kathy Johnston Randi’s blog last week got me thinking about some numbers in my own life. At 18 I married my high school sweetheart, Russ Ulrich, the father of my 3 boys. We were married 16 1⁄2 years when he died. I was a single mom for 2 years before I married my husband Jonathan Johnston. I’ve been married to Jonathan for 21 1⁄2 years. Total years married years is 38. I have 7 beautiful grandchildren! By the time Sophie gets married in August, she will be 19 and I will have had children living in my house for 38 years. But there’s a big change coming because in 82 days my youngest child, Sophie, will be married to Evan Tucker. CLICK ON PHOTO TO KEEP READING...
(UN)ASHAMED: Fact or Fiction?
A perfect and shameless world is not a fairy tale. We were designed for it.
(UN)ASHAMED to Burn
We get the privilege of walking like this. Living torches, burning beyond anything we are naturally capable of...
(UN)ASHAMED: Helped
My daughter, like many 5-year-olds, frequently rotates her preferred, future occupation. Sometimes, she wants to be a teacher. Other times, a Mommy. Still other times, an artist. But this past week, she’s been announcing to our family and friends, “When I grow up, I want to be a Helper and a Giver.”...
(UN)ASHAMED: Combating Shame
It’s happened before. It happened again last night. I reacted in a way that was shockingly inconsistent with how I normally behave... Forty-five minutes later I was still making apologies.
(UN)ASHAMED: Living Outside of Fear
I’ve used many words to describe my thought processes. I have an “overactive imagination”. I’m “excessively analytical”. My mental wheels just “won’t stop spinning”. But at the the heart lies a very real and dangerously large emotion: fear.
