Tag: Parenting
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Toddlers are the Best. Ever.
G is testing all the limits these days. He managed to squeeze between the stair rails and sneak past the baby gate to get downstairs today. Twice before we were sure how he did it. He’s a quick one. He hasn’t outsmarted zip ties yet, though. I wonder if God feels that way about me…
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The Slow Fast
It’s an hour until midnight. Tomorrow will be one month since I said I would study and then try a fast. Guess what? Barring a Holy Spirit moment mid-writing, I am not going to make that happen in my original timeline. I certainly will not be studied on the subject to the extent I had…
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The Doldrums
Here I was sailing merrily along, announcing I was ready for a storm, trying to mentally prepare myself for what I figured was going to a fight brought to my door by the outside world. I even felt like God was telling me to batten down and pull closer to my family in preparation. But…
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Life is Messy
I usually like to have a title in mind when I start writing one of these little posts, but today, I am feeling the weight of existence, and I am struggling to find words or inspiration. I want to disconnect badly right now. Unplug me, please. I want a drink. I want several. I want…
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Walking Out Big Prayers (Pt. 3)
3/24/23- I had to mentally spiral for a couple days after my last post on this subject. Trying to figure out what God wants me to do in this space, what I want for my own life, and what works for my family led me to spinning my mental wheels, and landed me on my…
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Chasing the Holy Spirit.
Places I have routinely been able to feel the Holy Spirit personally touch my heart or speak directly to me: Wait, what? Yeah, I know. Who am I even? But the first time I really felt like I heard God speaking to me was when I found out our youngest was going to be a…
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Reusable Bags and Disposable People.
Disposable. Everything in my life has been disposable. People, jobs, plates, ziplocks… me. I really only decided my marriage was not disposable within the last 2 years. I spent a decade of my life with someone that I was just waiting or one of us to leave. In fact, I was so sure of the…
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Working on my Temper.
I heard a sermon the other day (read: sometime in the last six months or so) from Elevation Church. The standout message I heard was this: Something could happen right now in your life that would make everything else irrelevant. Ask yourself: If you lost your family, what would you give to get them back?…
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Threads of Inadequacy and Shifts in Perspective.
I struggle with feeling inadequate in most areas of my life; it’s a thread that pulls when I stretch towards personal growth. It snags when I look at the laundry piled up on the couch, unravels me when I think of the tasks I didn’t accomplish when I lay in bed at night. I can…
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Chelsea Finds Jesus.
Today was a terrible day. I screamed at my kids, threw a bottle across the kitchen, and oh, yeah, Christmas is this weekend. Merry Christmas, Y’all. Don’t you just love the joyous holiday season? I know Christmas is the season of Baby Jesus, devotionals about Mary’s obedience and faith, wisemen and mangers, holly and lights,…
Chelsea Finds Jesus 