I have been planning all along to write this post on freedom in the context of marriage, and every time I sat down to begin, I found myself deleting as much as I wrote. After fifteen years of living with and loving the same man, I still do not feel qualified to do anything beyond share what I know ... Read More about 31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 14} Both hard and holy

Yesterday I talked about the earth shattering discovery that my introverted temperament was, in fact, not a character flaw. Call me a late bloomer, but I've since learned that a number of my personality 'issues' aren't actually issues at all. They are just the way that I'm woven together. I like the ... Read More about 31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 13} Shape not Break

My oldest and I were chatting about friends recently, when I tried to explain to her the difference between an introvert and an extrovert. Also known as the difference between me and her. Or, in her opinion, the difference between sad and fun.I know she didn't mean to be hurtful, she simply could ... Read More about 31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 12} Freedom Fits

If fear were an art form, I would be Rembrandt or Austen or Mozart. I have practiced the art of fear since I was a child. It began with the usual suspects: spiders, the dark, strangers. But over the years it grew in strength and morphed into something far less innocuous. Fear of failure, of being ... Read More about 31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 11} What are you practicing?

'There are two freedoms- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'~Charles KingsleyInhibitions can be a good thing. I refrain from sunbathing at the local pool in the nude, a fact for which we should all be grateful. I do not speak every ... Read More about 31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 10} Why you will never see me naked

I wrote about truth speakers a few days ago, those people in our lives who help comfort and carry us to freedom. They are a necessary part of the journey, but they are also human. Fallible flesh. There is another voice. A better one, one that is called 'The Way, The Truth, The Life'.We are all ears, ... Read More about 31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 9} The Truth