Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
My grandma once told me, “You can’t be all things to all people.” But dang it if I wasn’t going to try. As my grandma once told me, you can’t be all things to all people. I’ve been everything. I’ve been the shy, quiet girl. I’ve been the party girl. I’ve been the loud, “life […]
“This is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another” (1 John 3:11 ESV). A hand-painted sign above my front door reads “Love one another” in elegant script. While the lettering and words are beautiful, I have the sentiment displayed there not because I like how it looks, […]
It seems as though I’m in good company in the Motherless Daughters Club these days. It’s hard to watch friends lose their moms (and dads) much too young. I know that, eventually, they will come out the other side, stronger and wiser. But that ache never really goes away. Here are five things you will probably […]
When I look back at my thirty-three years of life, at first glance it seems as though everything I’ve ever wanted has been granted to me: my marriage, my children, my home, my career, and even my friendships. Yet none of these deepest desires of my heart came without a period of waiting and struggle […]
I’ve been reading a lot of different devotionals lately, as I begin the process of writing my own devotional for caregivers. Devotionals make a wonderful gift for yourself or for the special women in your life, and the list below should cover just about everyone. (Sorry, men, I know there are some great devotionals out […]