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Plan for Your Future
There are many verses in the Bible that mention planning, and it appears that planning is a good principle to live by. There are coaches and gurus that teach multiple methods of how to plan our time to use it most efficiently, allowing us to do more of the things that we enjoy doing. Most of us have a plan – of sorts – even if we don’t use a planner. Some of us use a planner, which may be paper or digital or a combination of both, and plan to the minute what we hope to accomplish. We make “to do” lists painstakingly written out or hastily scribbled on…
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Being Where You’re Meant to Be
Have you ever felt like you needed to be two places (or more) at once? I certainly have! This week has been difficult for me trying to fulfill my roles as a mother and a wife. Our fifteen-year-old daughter has been sick for over a week. We saw three doctors to try to find out what is ailing her; Covid-19, flu A and B, and strep were all ruled out after only a few days. Then, one of the doctors ordered a viral infection panel that returned negative results for fifteen different viruses. She’s still not feeling well and running a fever. Hopefully, the antibiotic she received will knock out whatever it…
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Seen and Heard
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Mandy Hale Worthy Hearing the words “Father God” prayed by my friend Karie quite literally changed my life. It was as if someone flipped a light switch on and illuminated a new path for me. Before that, I lived in a spiral of fears — of abandonment, of being unlovable, of shame, of unworthiness — most of my life. Looking back, I can see I sometimes hurt others before they had the opportunity to hurt me. I left before they left, and I stopped loving before they stopped loving because, eventually, everyone…
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Squeezed
The Squeeze Begins I entered the Sandwich Generation with a gentle squeeze in the spring of 2016. My seventy-nine-year-old mother began to make poor decisions about how to take care of things for herself and her health began to decline. I talked to her about moving to an independent living facility and took her to tour a couple of them. She insisted she didn’t need to move because she was fine. If she determined that she couldn’t live on her own, she would move in with my brother “Bubba” or he’d move in with her. Unfortunately, he wasn’t in the best health, and I didn’t believe it was a good plan for…
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What is “Sandwich Generation”?
I admit, I don’t really care for labels; I had too many unkind labels thrust upon me as I grew up, and, later, I placed shameful labels on myself. I first heard the label “Sandwich Generation” in December 2019. Talking to a friend on the phone, she said I was part of the “sandwich generation.” I thought I heard her wrong and asked, “What does that even mean?” She explained that it means I am part of the generation that is still raising my children but also taking care of a parent. Makes sense, right? I’m in the middle of two generations that need me. Curious, I wondered if my…
