(This awesome artwork is created by Sandy Mastroni.)
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was surely seeing into the future to the little girl that I used to be. Unfortunately, I didn’t stop being horrid until my mid-20′s. Continue reading
As a young girl, I always enjoyed reading books that were written journal-style. Even better if they had been actual journals about people’s every day lives. People like mothers. Mothers have so much emotion that it makes for great reading.
I became a mother in April of 2002. Motherhood did not come easy for me. Some days, it still slips my grasp. It’s hard to be a good mother when you are selfish. Continue reading
Part 1 of “From Mayhem to Ministry” can be read here.
The Challenge
You see, Jimmy ignored me, and I wasn’t used to being ignored by men. (Okay, so my husband ignored me. After he used me, he ignored me.) And even though I didn’t like Jimmy in “that way”, he became a challenge to me. What else did I have going for me? My marriage was in a shambles. My husband told me almost daily that he hated me. He stayed drunk, he said, so he wouldn’t have to put up with me. I was calloused to the promise, the vow of marriage. I had met my match in Mr. Jimmy Martin, Network Specialist. I was not to be ignored. So I upped the ante. Continue reading
