Koodaigirl

After a whirlwind, messy, upsetting dream filled with too many faces, too many needs, so many things to do and all while needing a shower an...

  Power of Words A simple phrase spoken with a smile. Said with kindness,  words slam into my chest. My balance is lost, Rocked and off kilt...

In this season of life, sleep is not always a given.  There are many mornings when I feel heavy and exhausted after the restless or sleepl...

I woke up two mornings ago with pain and a very swollen eye.  No fun.  It looked like I had been in a fight and lost!  The quick jaunt to ...

I see it in your eyes.  I see the emotion. All of me wants you to know, "It's really okay to be sad." I see it and I wan...

Below I offer you an un-edited re-post of a blog   I wrote August, 2016. ------- Take a load off.  Sit for a while.  Rest...  ...

I just didn't have it this morning.  I felt empty.  Lacking. I woke up seriously lacking.  Lacking energy.  Lacking joy.  Out of sor...

The look on his face was priceless.  At 16 years old, my son is well accustomed to doing his own laundry. Yesterday, his dad, as an ac...

It just jumped out at me.  She said it, really, just in passing.  Smack dab in the middle of another story she said it.  And, in that mom...

photo source In this season of life sleep is not always a given.  There are many mornings when I feel heavy and exhausted after the re...

photo source Take a load off.  Sit for a while.  Rest...  Sabbath is really, really important to God.  Plain and simple.  He makes n...

photo source There is a powerful urge that I feel sometimes... a voracious appetite.  Do you ever feel it? In recent years, I have b...

photo source The "to-do" list runs long and feels heavy.  The calendar seems to scream at me and I begin to feel it pushing ...

photo source Just one more pair of jeans... that should do, right?  Oh!  and...I need just one more shirt in pink, then I am done.   Jus...

Lord, please order my day.  This prayer I have been praying on and off for many years.  I am not sure where I first read it, or heard it.....

The advice I received when I exited the hospital two weeks ago was, "Listen to you body!" I have never been very good at listening...

I watched a silly, stupid movie last night. After a full day, I decided to watch a free, streaming-online movie. I really wanted to find a...

Sometimes I just get really tired. Today I felt this way. There are days when my body, my mind and my soul feel fatigued. This morning I...

"I can't think of anything worth saying... but I know I owe you my life" (Aaron Shust) My equilibrium is off. Not physically, ...

Sometimes you just have to say "no". ...not because you want to. ...not because it feels right, but because you know it IS right. ...