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When You Need to Know You’re Not Alone

Friend, can I tell you this, without a clever anecdote or remarkable prose? Just truth from my heart to yours, as Ann says, “preaching Gospel to myself”?
You are not alone.
Although you might be lonely, you are not alone.

Although responsibility might overwhelm you until you think you might break, you’re not alone.

Although this battle might […]

When You Need To Know That You’ve Always Been Beautiful

A number of years ago, I was invited to speak at a small women’s retreat. I titled my sessions “Confessions of an Ugly Duckling” and, oh friend, was it a brave time for me.
You see, I was back home on Vancouver Island and I found my worst.school.photo.ever. I had a few really bad photos, […]

When You Feel Unloved

“Unadoptable.”This ugly word is one I encountered in our journey to welcome Sweet Girl to our family. As we considered out best fit, we learned that there is a grouping of children who have been labeled unadoptable. This grieves me deeply, because I know that in the hearts and minds of these wee little […]

When You Need a Better New Year

“2014 is going to be better.”

Those were the words I shared with a girlfriend recently, as we sipped coffee and considered the heartache that she and many others had experienced over 2013. I believe those words deeply, because I’ve lived them. As 2012 drew to a close, I knew that 2013 had to be […]