Dear Beloved, Merry Christmas from the Wayrad household! Our year has flown past! Chasing after two little ones is the most rewarding and exhausting thing I’ve ever done. 2011 has been year full of potty training (for mommy AND baby!) bedtime stories, and celebrating our sixth year of wedded bliss. Life is good… Okay, now…
Living with Disability
“Disability says ugly things to me. God says beautiful things to me.” Krista Horning This is beautiful. It makes my heart happy. I am surrounded by disability at work daily. I have to know how to handle it. How to struggle along with people, how to have hope in pain. A friend sent me this…
Singleness and Bridget Jones
“I’ll finally die, fat and alone. And be found three weeks later, half eaten by wild dogs.” Ah, Bridget Jones. The woman. The legend. I know of so many women, including myself, who can relate to her doomsday singleness mentality represented above. On my best days, I enjoy my singleness, my freedom, my ability to…
What am I Created For?
(Yes, the title ends in a preposition, Grammar-philes. Get over it!) “If you had a million dollars. What would you do for a living?” We’ve all heard it. Typically from the high school guidance counselor trying to guide us in future decisions. I’ve been thinking a ton about this lately. What is my ideal job?…
Done with To Do Lists
I’m done with to do lists. I think I keep 3M, the maker of Post-its in business single-handedly. I have oodles of lists all running concurrently. One for work tasks. One for home and chores. One for bills. One for the blog. One for Christmas presents, and shipping dates, and wish lists. You get the…
Pixar and Gnosticism
Lately I’ve been ruminating on gnosticism. I know, I’m weird. Probably most people don’t even know what that is, but the fact of the matter is, it’s all around us. What is even weirder is how watching Ratatouille gave clarity to my ruminations about gnosticism! Gnosticism is a pre-Christian idea involving a supreme Archon, eons,…
Sunday Fun Day!
Have you seen this on You Tube? This is one of my favorite games! I love getting sucked into a battle of laughter and ridiculosity. I don’t always win, but I always have a few doozies to share that induce laughter, merriment — and when the mood is right — milk being shot from nostrils.…
Connections
I met an unlikely sister. She was my patient. We had different backgrounds. Different life experiences. Different present situations. But we clicked. It just felt natural. Easy. Comfortable. I spent an extended amount of time with this woman. She had a complicated medical history and was feeling down. I was able to share her struggles…
Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. Luke 2:6-7 This is just two verses and yet it contains so…
O Holy Night
I introduced my parents to this little ditty last year. We watched it at least a dozen times. Laughed hilariously. Imitated. Parroted and charaded as this singer. Everything was fine until our church sang O Holy Night last Christmas eve. We dissolved in a puddle of hysterics and shaking and were absolutely rendered useless singers.…