Encouraging faith, practicing gratitude, discovering joy
Kindle Earlier this week, I recommended you S-T-R-E-T-C-H your comfort zone, and gave you the benefits of and ideas for doing so. Some of you found those a bit daunting, and that is ok. It just means you have found an edge of your comfort zone—hooray! To further discover areas that need to be broken [...]
Kindle You whip your car into a parking place, rushing again to get to work on time. As you come to a hard stop, your purse tumbles off the seat, its contents disappearing underneath the empty fast-food bags and other clutter on the floor. A strangled sigh of frustration escapes your lips, and tears prick [...]
Kindle Did you ever play with binoculars as a kid? I did, and as I would sweep the rural landscape, I was always amazed at how big and close things became. However, turning the binocs around and looking through the opposite end was a real eye-opener as well. My focus became very small, and [...]
Kindle Fear. We talk about it quite a bit, don’t we, my friends? We can be afraid of so much, and yet when we face it head on, we find it is often just smoke and mirrors, an itty-bitty Chihuahua whose bark is artificially amplified from behind the curtain. Today I am sharing a story I [...]
Kindle photo: www.Photobotos.com Dear Chihuahua of Fear, I have some things I’d like to say to you. You showed up on my doorstep unannounced and uninvited a long, long time ago, and I took you in. How could I not, with those adorable eyes and cute perky ears? You had a puppy’s firecracker enthusiasm, [...]
Kindle Holley Gerth has asked us dreamers for a glimpse into our typical day, and how we see God’s hand in the small and ordinary. Come on in, have some coffee and cookies, and join us! I tend to put my happy glasses on in the morning and view the world through them most [...]
Kindle Dear fellow dreamer of dreams, bearer of so much wonderfully amazing possibility, How are you today? I mean, really, how are you? Are you still feeling that stirring in your soul, that pull to step out into your dream? That same dream that gives you the heebie-jeebies and makes you short of [...]
Kindle Welcome to Part Two of Love by the Book! If you missed Part One, you can find it here. If you read it last week and took action, I’d love to have you share in the comments how it helped. In honor of love and marriage and to help grow stronger and more satisfying [...]
Kindle In honor of February, the month of L-O-V-E, I am sharing an updated, two-part, version of a post I wrote last year. I have added resources in the hope that you are more easily able to find more successful ways to communicate with your husband. Did you know that there is an [...]
Kindle Folks tend to be curious about how I came to be here as a helper and encourager, so today I’m sharing my story. It’s not nice and neat, and parts are kind of embarrassing, probably much like yours and anyone else’s. My hope is that you draw encouragement to step out to follow your [...]
Welcome to Too Darn Happy, where we are all about encouraging faith, practicing gratitude, and discovering joy. After all, if we aren't truly happy, how can we build strong and satisfying relationships?
