by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 20, 2012 | Faith, Fellowship
(Originally posted in October 2010, and still relevant today.) I’ve recently been fascinated by different documentary-type shows about hoarding. It is interesting to me to see the way the people are living and to see how their illness has affected the people around...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 18, 2012 | Faith, Family
This is Sebastian. He is our 5 month old kitten, and in the few weeks he has been living with us, he has turned our house upside down in that wonderful way fur babies can. He makes us laugh…he helps us relax…it’s all pretty wonderful. However, Sebastian is a very,...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 14, 2012 | Faith
After all of my thinking and meditating over the past few days on the idea of storms within my spirit, I chuckled a little this morning when I saw that my devotional plan led me to this passage for today. That day, when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 12, 2012 | Faith
“Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the Gospel. As a result, it has become clear…to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.” (Philippians 1:12) My struggle with anxiety – that ever present...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 26, 2011 | Faith
This morning, I awoke with an inexplicable sadness. Maybe you did, too. It’s not like the sadness I’ve dealt with a lot lately, but more like a letdown somehow. It was that feeling of, “Now what?” that comes after a long-anticipated event. I walked into the family...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 19, 2011 | Faith
As Jesus walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him. When the...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 17, 2011 | Faith
“There’s a place in the darkness that I used to cling to…” Yesterday was rough. I was inexplicably overtaken by tears from the time I got up until…well, until this morning. My heart was broken, and while I had no reason to feel the pain I was feeling, that in no way...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 8, 2011 | Faith, Family
I don’t like to write too much about parenting here, mainly because I don’t feel like I have enough parental wisdom to use that as a topic for my writing. Sometimes, though, I think my husband and I do something particularly well and I do like to share those...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 5, 2011 | Faith, Family
I am not the mom I always assumed I would be. One of the best ways for me to explain what I mean is to show you this picture: That is my daughter’s PlayDoh. Four colors of it, to be precise….in only three blobs. With specks and flakes and pieces of different colors...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 2, 2011 | Faith
I hope that this is a venue where I can be as transparent as I want. I have something I want to talk about today, and to do so, I have to open up and share something that I have long struggled with. Prayer. If you are a member of my church community and know me from...
