by Jodie Stevens | Aug 7, 2017 | Happiness, Hope, Love |
I’ve always loved exploring nature. While hiking in the mountains on our recent trip to Washington I experienced moments of feeling overcome by beauty. There were times when I actually feared I couldn’t capture it all so I spent hours climbing one hillside...
by Jodie Stevens | Jun 19, 2017 | Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope |
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:13-14). I recently took a personality test on temperament and scored a...
by Jodie Stevens | Jun 8, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope |
“For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world” (1 Timothy 6:7). I never realize how much stuff I have until it’s time to move it all. What used to fit in the back of my pickup now requires a moving truck the...
by Jodie Stevens | May 16, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
You word is a lamp on my feet, a light on my path” (Psalm 119). In a previous piece I wrote about how listening to too many opinions can make it hard to hear God’s voice. This dovetails with another thing that can drown out God’s voice; an...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 24, 2017 | Happiness, Hope, Love |
When I was a child I loved reading The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams 1922). It’s a story about a child’s toy that longs to be ‘Real.’ “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 20, 2017 | Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope, Humor |
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training” (Anna Freud). I’m 10 years old and really excited. I’m in fourth grade and it’s field trip day. Our class is going to visit the Super Computer! Now this is a fancy machine with a...
