by Melinda | Jan 29, 2016 | Get Real, It's Not About Me, Listen and Learn, Living Low, Mimmie's Heart, Self Help
It was beautiful here yesterday. Unseasonably warm to the point that the gal across the street from my daughter’s house was washing her car in shorts and a tank top, her toddler “helping” in nothing but a diaper. Personally, I was very...
by Melinda | Jan 19, 2016 | Free Indeed, Get Real, He Knows Me, Healing Hearts, Self Help, Thankfulness, The Great Uncomfortable, Truth
Brody was asleep, and because Lilli was off school on Monday, the two of us spent his naptime hours together. We brought down some games from upstairs and jumped in with gusto. Girlfriend LOVES games. Toward the end of his naptime, and of the last game, she...
by Melinda | Jan 5, 2016 | Get Real, Living in the Moment, Self Help, The Great Uncomfortable
I’ve been walking by it all month. Right off the garage, I’ve been forced to see it there, screaming a litany of what needs to be done. My desk (or catch-all, which is by far the more accurate term) has had neatish stacks of papers, statements, and...
by Melinda | Dec 27, 2015 | Get Real, Health, Let's Eat, Listen and Learn, Self Help, The Great Uncomfortable
One of the side dishes I served for Christmas dinner was Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Reduction and Cranberries. They were delicious, and this is coming from the girl who hated them so much, growing up, that she faced down her father at dinner and was...
by Melinda | Dec 24, 2015 | Christmas, Free Indeed, He Knows Me, Healing Hearts, Heart talk, Hope, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Sacrifice, Self Help, Thankfulness, Trust and Obey, Truth, Working Out Faith
I thought I might do a little something, this year, that would help me focus on what this season is really about, and maybe it could help you, too. I’m going to take the story of Jesus’s birth, found in Luke 2, and go verse by verse, 1 through 24, to see what happens....
by Melinda | Nov 18, 2015 | Quiet, Self Help, Work
That title almost seems impossible in today’s world, doesn’t it? It does to me, at any rate. The constant chatter of the outside world seems like you’re always within earshot of a giant swarm of bees (and if you’re not careful, you can...
