Welcome to episode 095 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. For the latest info on my (soon coming) NEW E-course: Text the words: ‘CONNECTWITHYOURTEEN’ To the number: ‘33444’ […]
MS 047 Colleen Mitchell: Being Broken and Learning to See Grief As a Gift
Welcome to episode 047 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. In today’s episode I’m continuing part two of my conversation with Colleen Mitchell. If you missed part one, you […]
MS 027 Courtney DeFeo: Identity, Comparison, and A Challenge to Giggle
Welcome to episode 027 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. In today’s episode I’m talking with Courtney DeFeo—author, blogger, and speaker–wife to Ron, and mom to two darling girls. […]
The Secret of How to Live a Holy Life
I wrestle with perfectionism. My tendency of performing for love, lingers, and old habits are hard to break. Even in my relationship with God. I read in my Bible of being holy–of being ‘set apart’. But I struggle to know what that means, and how it is supposed to look. Because in my everyday chaotic grind, I […]
To Slow in This Season, and Reflect
I walk the perimeter of the tiny lake at sunset, and the trees reflect and glow on the surface of the lake’s still water. I walk, and ponder–reflect on my life, and this season I’m now living. There is silence. Ducks split the smoothness in formation, leaving a wake behind them. They are braving their […]
Caught in the Rhythms of Grace
I’m caught in the rhythms of grace. Grace … outlandish and crazy grace. A love poured out from His heart to mine. Something I don’t deserve. Something I could never earn. Something I so desperately need. The beat of its rhythm is steady and sets the pace for my every day. My every hour. My […]
In Case You’re Wondering What They Will Remember
We say goodbye to her just five months after her 90th birthday. And it is ever before me that life really is a vapor, a mist that is here for a time and then gone, vanishing like steam rising in the air. He plays his guitar and we lead the music and sing “It Will […]