Kristen Blog

I’ve been thinking a lot about “perspective” this week. -My dad turned 70...old is perspective. -My chicken (Big Mama) died...so did an old friend’s child ...heartache is perspective. -I am disgusted with so many things about myself...and a child tells me, “You are the best!”...my value is perspective. There is rarely any truth in the perspectives of this world, and I am struggling to hang on to the hope of an exponentially better eternity...because sometimes that just doesn’t do much to help me through NOW. I can only make so much lemonade. I am running out of sugar, and we seem to be drowning in lemons. But...even when I am struggling and there are ABSOLUTELY NO ANSWERS, I will cling to my faith...if not solely because I’ve been dramatically convinced...then also because I am stubborn and REFUSE to be bested. Today, I tried to treat my parents to something uniquely special. It didn’t go as planned.  We were completely forgotten by the obviously overwhelmed (and probably new) wai

  We capped off a very tough week with a wonderful weekend, and I am ever so grateful. I’m all about finding beauty...even in the hard times...but you’d better believe I appreciate the good when it’s good! (I didn’t always...I used to waste those precious moments worrying about when the weather would turn.) This week I experienced a happy accident and a really odd “miracle.” They will both go down in the books of my gratitude awareness. I was trying to capture this beautiful moment...when our frigid world warmed a bit and we finally got our house-bound boys outside.   We took a walk to the park...it was a hike, actually, as we had to trudge through the snow. So, we let them play (pics to follow...) for a bit and treated them to the shortcut home.   We generally do not take the shortcut, but it is such a fun (though short...hence the name) experience...a little uphill path cut out through the trees. And, as we broke into the clearing (and our neighborhood), it was so lovely a view -