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Creature of Habit

Have you ever thought about your habits and how much they set you up for success or failure? It is so hard to break a habit and especially one that is not the best for you. Something that Craig Groeschel said in a podcast that I love, “Successful people do consistently what other people do occasionally.” That statement is so powerful when you sit and think about it. Consistency is hard especially when it’s not something that you love to do. It is so much easier to take the easy way out of things, or you can make up a million different excuses to prevent you from doing what is best for you. I am very consistent in my morning routine. I am up at 5:30am working out, and I cherish this time for myself so I make sure it happens to start my day off on the right foot. I feel like I can collect my thoughts before all the kids are up and going a million miles an hour. I will have my coffee every day, try and drink enough water etc. The rest of my day changes day to day and some…

The False Race

This morning as I was doing my bible study I knew immediately that God put this in my path for a reason. For now I am going through a season in motherhood where I am struggling finding my meaning, my purpose, and it is such a hard struggle and I think even more so when you are a stay at home mom. I have struggled with this off and on during my eight years of staying home with a couple more years to go and it can feel like you are going nowhere. These feelings of loneliness and of being unworthy creep in when you least expect it. I am writing this because I am convinced that I am not the only other stay at home mom that feels this way. In the bible study, First Be A Follower, which is created by my most favorite author Hannah Brencher, one of the first few things I read of her hope for people doing this study was, “That we give up the false race of “getting there” to learn how to be here now.” In my personal journey as a stay at home mom I always feel…