Jodi

How many things in this world are truly constant? Talk to a woman whose husband has left her – a husband she just knew she would grow old with. Maybe a dear friend has hurt you deeply, therefore causing you to sever ties.  Believe me, even our good health can be taken for granted as […]

Transparency is a scary word, especially when that means sharing our thoughts and actions, even our mistakes, with others.  Being transparent means being real, and sometimes being real means showing those raw places of our hearts that we buried deep and tried to forget.  After all, we have to make room for that plastered smile […]

Our house is very small. Our vehicles are old and rusty.  Money is tight.  Our fridge isn’t always full, or always working right.  My house isn’t always clean. We don’t go on fancy vacations, or vacations much at all. Yet I find myself content, most of the time that is. I am a garage sale, […]

Around the holidays, I can’t help but look back and reminisce on the events that took place over the past year.  This year was entirely too eventful, if you ask me.  New physical pain has crept into my life and my sweet husband found himself in the same boat, sadly. It was a blur of […]

I’m gonna be honest. Life has been rough lately. It’s been pain-filled. It’s been ever so trying on my heart and on my soul.  The past few months have been entirely too full of countless, unbearable days. That’s hard for me to admit. I would so much rather tell you I’m fine – that life […]

On the way to work, I couldn’t help but notice what appeared to be a very large dog ahead. As I got closer, I could see that he was laying flat on his side in his driveway, very near the road. Not uncommon – my pup lays that way often. But my dog has never […]

I hadn’t been sick very long before I felt the Lord calling me to write – to which I promptly said, “No thanks”. I mean, really – there I was, in horrible pain, depression, and guilt over everything I was letting slide (including my family). Why in the WORLD would I want to write about […]

Oh, Brutus. That dog taught me so much about deepening my spiritual walk. That’s right, I said it – a dog, my spiritual walk.  And you know what’s even funnier? That dog hated me. Brutus was a rescue dog my husband had gotten in his bachelor years. He was big and scary-looking and when he barked, you […]

My husband climbed into my waiting vehicle. He had just gotten home from picking up his truck after getting a number of very costly repairs. We both sighed, pushed it out of our minds and looked towards our day together. It had been entirely too long since we had gained a whole day together just […]

If you ask me, discernment is just about THE hardest thing to achieve as a follower of Christ.  Life is hard.  Life is messy and often times, we are left with more questions than answers.  And when we try to listen for those answers, it’s easy to not be able to hear His voice in […]