by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 24, 2012 | Faith, Family
Yesterday we broke the ice on the idea of balance within a marriage, and today I’d like to get right into why this is so important. As I mentioned, more is at stake when a marriage settles for imbalance than when an individual does so. I believe that because...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 23, 2012 | Faith, Family
I’m a little surprised at myself. I’ve spent twenty-two days now (!!!) writing on living a balanced life PERSONALLY – as an individual – and I don’t think I have really even touched on the idea of living a balanced life IN COMMUNITY. As...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 22, 2012 | Faith
What I feel led to discuss today is not exciting to me. Quite the contrary. It’s a lot easier – and much more pleasant, may I add – to discuss things that I feel like I am doing well. It’s easier, too, to talk about things I know I need to work...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 21, 2012 | Faith
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you. These are the ways of the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. None of these...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 20, 2012 | Faith
In the car this morning, I heard on the news that one of the candidates for the French presidency has the elimination of all homework as part of his platform. When I first heard that, I thought it was ridiculous, but then they explained: he feels strongly that even at...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 19, 2012 | Faith, Family
I first heard the term soon after I began college. It wasn’t mentioned among my peers, per se, but more from our advisors…the teachers of our freshman orientation classes. We certainly made reference to it, even if we never used the actual word. Helicopter...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 18, 2012 | Faith
“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.” (Patricia McCormick, Cut) “I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.” (Bill Watterson) A few weeks ago, my family took a long-awaited trip...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 17, 2012 | Faith
The other night in my small group, we watched a message from Craig Groeschel that hit me in my heart. It penetrated deeply. It hurt. I laughed at the many similarities between what he said and my own life…but inside I was thoroughly disturbed. (It is no...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 16, 2012 | Faith
It’s easily one of the hardest things you could ask me to do. I would do a million other things – likely destroying myself in the process – before I could take the plunge and do it. No matter how long I think about it, I cannot develop a scenario...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 15, 2012 | Faith, Family
Can I confess something? Before I became a mother, I was a terrible judge of others’ mothering. I mean that in both ways it could be read: 1)I was bad about judging how mothers did things with their kids. 2)I was not a very good judge of what I saw. I cringe to look...
