The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
Five Minute Friday – Limit
For the first time in months I missed Five Minute Friday last week. My week just wasn't the same. But I'm back today, and I'm thankful. Five Minute Friday is not only free-writing for five minutes, but it's also an amazing community of people of encouragement, hope,...
A Better Way To Battle
I learned a new word this week. shadowboxing :: an exercise used in the training for combat sports, especially, as its name implies, boxing. It is used mainly to prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity. In shadowboxing,...
7 Ways To Spread Joy At Work
How do you spread joy in your job? What do you do to keep a positive outlook and to keep a smile on your face, even on the days when it's difficult to do so? I fully understand some days it's harder to accomplish that than others. I found some ideas in my archives...
Stepping Into A New Season
For everything that happens in life—there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven... Ecclesiastes 3:1 VOICE "How's your new job going?" I'm getting asked this often lately. And I'm thankful so many people care and are interested in how I'm doing in my...
When Insecurity Robs Us
It's probably safe to say most of us in the U.S. realize it was a big day in our state of Iowa yesterday. But in case you missed it, yesterday was the Iowa Caucus. The first in the nation for this year's presidential election. I had never caucused before, and quite...
Love Note To My Lefes – January 2016
My monthly love note to the three I'm honored to call family: To Bill, Alissa & Zach, Here we are. Another month has slipped passed us. And, I'd say it was a great start to 2016. Going through my photos of us for the month, I realized I had two. (So, there's no...
