because we're not listening part 2: three reasons we don't listen

Hey, Listen! No, I’m not trying to get your attention. I’m trying to give a command. Listen!

This is the reminder being given to me lately, the words slowing entering my soul telling me of my job as one of God’s children. I am placed in this time and in this place for many a reason, but one in particular that keeps coming back again and again is the request of me to listen. To model that skill, to create a domino effect of others exercising that skill, to show how God brings peace in the midst of chaos through that one tiny, but not so tiny, act. Listening.

UncategorizedSarah MayFebruary 20, 2019Comment

because we think we know best

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." At least, so says Saul Bellows, but there is much truth in this statement made from experience. Whether you change it or not, the ideas that strike you in the middle of the night, the ones that wake you from a dead sleep, those are meant to be paid attention to. Whether their purpose is to motivate you into a fury of productivity because of their inspirational content or send you into a panic as the wake of worry the words bring begin to pound, they must be paid attention to.

UncategorizedSarah MayJanuary 30, 2019Comment

because maybe its a better idea to pick my one word at the end of the year

Happy January to you all. Happy New Year, happy new beginnings, happy continuation, happy getting back to it, or happy starting over and, for today, happy sunshine to us. It's a beautiful sight to see outside my window when the ground is still a soggy mess and there have been not one, but two professionals at our home to deal with flooding through the walls of our youngest two's bedroom due to the insanity of wet the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 brought.