by Julie Lefebure | Mar 11, 2015 | Parenting
Parenting is hard work. There were times when I questioned if all I was doing was worth it. The fruits of my labor were absent. I was tired. Worn out. Weary in my parenting. Was anything I modeled and taught sinking in? Let alone, so often I felt like I was failing as...
by Julie Lefebure | Mar 9, 2015 | Love God, personal journey
It was one of those moments. You know the kind. Where all of life seems to stop. What you thought was important yesterday, suddenly looked trivial. The small matters that recently consumed your mind, quickly blurred and faded away. As I sat there in the pew, I...
by Julie Lefebure | Mar 5, 2015 | Five Minute Friday
Five Minute Friday. The days and weeks fly by, don’t they? Here we are again. It’s one of my favorite times of the week. Many of us gather on Twitter in a big #fmfparty community, we take five minutes to free-write on a given one-word prompt, and we gather...
by Julie Lefebure | Mar 5, 2015 | Love God
My daughter’s car accident her senior year. The mono she dealt with just weeks before. My son’s eye injury. The death of my father. Then of my mother. Finding my friend unconscious, who days later died of a brain aneurysm. The phone call from my daughter...
by Julie Lefebure | Mar 4, 2015 | personal journey
Sometimes I am my own worst enemy. I can let myself make decisions that are easy… but not necessarily the best for me. I, all too often, take the easy way out, and not always the best way out. Take for example, my workouts. Man, am I ever struggling with them...
