by Julie Lefebure | Oct 29, 2020 | #open2020, Encouragement
Friend, can I be frank with you today? I find myself tired of this pandemic. This is where I am. I’m tired of wearing masks in public. I’m tired of the pandemic always lingering in the back of my mind. I am tired of the present underlying fear that resides...
by Julie Lefebure | Oct 28, 2020 | #open2020, Encouragement
What happens when you and I get bumped? What spills out? I had an experience this morning that explains exactly what happens. It was 6:43 a.m. Pick up time at the vet began at 6:45. I parked my car in the parking lot, got out, and made my way in line behind a man...
by Julie Lefebure | Oct 27, 2020 | #open2020, Encouragement
Am I the only one who feels like I’m losing control these days? Because this season has proven there isn’t much I can control. I can’t control the weather, otherwise I would have stopped the August Iowa derecho. I can’t control this pandemic,...
by Julie Lefebure | Oct 17, 2020 | #open2020, Encouragement
Life can feel a bit uncertain these days. Right? Finding our way through this pandemic, facing the ugliness of the upcoming national election, digging out from devastating natural disasters, reading headlines that are filled with uncertainty, and wondering some days...
by Julie Lefebure | Oct 16, 2020 | #open2020, Encouragement, Ramblings
Without question I say these are uncertain times. We’re living in the midst of a pandemic (remember how that word once scared us?). Do we wear masks or not? (That’s a dissenting issue, itself.) We are just weeks away from a tension-filled, divisive...
by Julie Lefebure | Oct 7, 2020 | #open2020, Encouragement
“I feel so overwhelmed!” My good friend voiced these four words last week. So did someone in my family. I heard them from a co-worker, and I read them in an email from someone else. A friend in ministry said them as well. And to top it off, I silently...
