The Total Life Overhaul: Prayer

See Installments One and Two. I didn’t think twice about where to begin overhauling our life. I knew that if my prayer life was not thriving, the rest of me wouldn’t, either. If our family is not rooted first and foremost in the Lord and His will, nothing...

The Total Life Overhaul: How We Planned for It

See the Introduction here Once I decided that we were in a terrible state of survival mode that we didn’t have to be in, the planning began shortly after. Like I said in the introduction, some sort of survival mode is simply unavoidable for us while Dave is...

The Total Life Overhaul: An Introduction

A few months ago, Dave came home to quite a mess of a wife. Actually, he had been coming home to a mess of a wife for a while; but on this particular night, I had snapped. When Dave walked through the door, he beheld a disheveled woman who hadn’t showered (much...

Your Builders Outstrip Your Destroyers

“But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me.”  “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have graven you on the palms of...
Our Next Project (A Minimize the Mess Review)

Our Next Project (A Minimize the Mess Review)

One of our big goals this summer is to reorganize our little apartment while Dave is out of school. Particularly our downstairs storage area because first comes love of things that don’t fit in our space, then comes gifts from marriage that we love but can’t use until...