Yesterday was a down in the dumps kind of day.
I felt overwhelmed. My week was engulfed by piles of laundry, chores, work, errands, packing lunches, and scraping together dinners.
I had promised myself that I would accomplish my personal goals for the week. But an upcoming road trip + daily responsibilities left me with a bad case of the blues.
So naturally, I did what any of us would do. I mindlessly thumbed through Facebook.
And then I saw her life. You know the one.
Do you ever wonder why difficulties in your life seem to cycle on repeat?
Like lapsing waves, one hardship rose after the other this month. Each circumstance cued my anxiety like clockwork. But when the pressure didn’t let up, it got me thinking. Why does each struggle feel so eerily similar to the last one? Continue reading
Last week I had a scare. In the span of only a few minutes, my world was shaken. Again.It had only been 4 years since my last autoimmune flare. Yet my knee grew twice its size for a second time. Flashbacks of wheelchairs and home confinement flooded my mind, crippling my heart.
This couldn’t be happening. Not again. Not ever. Continue reading
Odds are high you will experience something beyond your control today. A long line, bad traffic, the weather, a sick kid, demands from your boss or confrontation with your spouse.
Here are a few tell-tale signs that you may be feeling out of control: Continue reading
When you go through a difficult season, it’s easy to wonder: Where is God in all of this?
Does God see? Does He even care? Why doesn’t He do something?
After watching the news this week, my heart broke over the suffering of so many people. When innocent people suffer unjustly, something in us questions Continue reading
Did you know that you can have faith and not use it?
Believing is easy. Acting on what you believe is a heck of a lot harder. Continue reading
Want to change your life this year? Tired of the same old bad habits? Are you feeling defeated, overwhelmed, and hopeless?
Me too.
For a long time I felt like I was spinning my wheels and going nowhere. I needed a better way to live life. One that actually creates change instead of just more of the same. Continue reading
I recently did something crazy. Last time this happened, I was a teenager.
I asked for books for Christmas.
LOTS of books.
I literally came away from Christmas morning grinning like a nerd, stacks of reading material in hand.
Or maybe that’s normal for you. But I haven’t asked or received a book as a gift in over a decade. And that’s because I’ve been a TV-aholic for the last number of years (Downton Abbey? Anyone?). Continue reading
Rachel Boulos 