About a month after our divorce was final, my ex-husband walked into our youngest son’s church league basketball game sporting a fresh haircut. When we […]
Depression
Early on in the affair, before my husband left, I tried to do anything I could think of to be a better wife, to make […]
Bargaining
After the affair, I don’t think I ever really bargained with God. Mostly I just begged Him. The bargaining was more with myself although at […]
Anger
I’d venture to bet that most women think they know how they would react if they found their man cheating. Thoughts of bodily harm and […]
Denial
It was the last week in October when we brought our baby boy home for the first time to our rented two-story townhouse. New parents […]
New Years Reflections 2018-2020
In looking over my New Years writings the past three years, I see how God took me from a broken woman, desperate for answers…to a […]
Our Healing Wrapped up in Swaddling Clothes
One major consideration when I am on the hunt for a new house is how will it look at Christmas time. The first house we […]
Work of Winter
It was a frigid 21° outside when I woke up yesterday. Seeing that low temperature reading on the weather app of my phone made me […]
A Timely Gift
When I was a little girl, my MawMaw Hale would invite all her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to our house at Christmas time. The tree […]
Roots of Rejection
Preface: This blog contains memories from early childhood that have impacted me in adulthood. I share them here solely for the sake of painting that […]