Quietly she makes her home, Sometimes with joy and sometimes with tears. She makes things beautiful, And little hands leave it undone that same day or same hour. She works in the kitchen to nourish her loved ones, And little noses turn up and her work can be wasted. Some days she’s left weary, discouraged, …
Category: Thoughts & Faith
Coping with Parosmia Post Covid | What I Can Eat
Coping with Parosmia has been quite the journey. My experience with food is completely different now and It’s often unenjoyable. If you are coping with parosmia post covid like I am, my goal is to offer you some hope and solace. It’s a real loss and it’s normal to grieve and feel sadness. Food is …
Grieving My Stillborn Baby With Hope
This post was written over 8 years ago, on my original blog. I wrote this mere months after our loss and was deeply in the midst of grieving my stillborn baby -Ezra Shepherd Sweat. If you have experienced a similar loss, I share it again with you here, in hopes that it will help you …
A Prayer for Peace
Father, I am anxious. Turn me towards you. Thoughts are spinning faster and faster through my mind, leaving a cloud of worry and unrest in their fury. I want to reach into the swirling chaos, grab each thought, and control it’s circumstances. But I know from years past this just increases my anxiety. My chaos. …
weakness + purpose
My head is swirling, clouded, and heavy. Why am I so afraid? I fear man. I fear what they think of me. In my deepest heart, I despretley want people to like me. If i’m truly honest, I want them to see my life and admire it. I do not want them to see my …
Obedience + Humility
My thoughts on Obedience + Humility while parenting in our everyday life. Do our children need to obedient and humble or do we as parents need to be striving for these qualities as well. Read my honest thoughts parenting with intention in the home. I have to be honest. I have been so frustrated lately …
creativeness + significance
One of my favorite things to do is to go on slow, peaceful walks and talk and pray out loud. To be honest, I only ever get these a handful of times a year in this season, but it would be so healthy for me to have more. I just need to ask and make …
Peace + Purpose
Hey Friends! Wow! So this is my first blog post on the new site and I’m all jittery about it. I haven’t blogged in years since starting my first blog after losing my son, Ezra. I truly feel like God has been nudging me to blog again, but actually doing it is, well…a little scary …