It has been a minute—or several. I haven’t posted a blog to A Little Messy in some time now. Call it a hectic schedule, writer’s block, emotional fatigue, or the ugliness of life preventing my fingers to type words on a blank document. Turns out, I’m still a little messy. I’ve found a sacredness in the mess though, and for a while, it needed to be between me, Jesus […]

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on the counselor’s couch—again. If you look back at some of my archived posts, you’ll find I spend a fair amount of time on this couch. He handed me a worksheet of sorts. I had to read a handful of statements and decide whether they were a fact or a judgment. Two things occurred to me as I did this exercise. One, I […]

What you are going to read about is a topic that is way bigger than me. There is so much to say, and I barely scratched the surface. But at the end of the day, this is my story, my experience, and my thoughts. I have a blog platform that I’ve been blessed to speak from, and I don’t take that lightly. I’m not asking for sympathy, and certainly not […]

For those of us with children we pray from when they are very young that they will have a wonderful childhood, with limited complications. That when they are adulting someday they will look back and say, “That was really quite awesome. My parents are cool people. Man, I had it good.” Let’s be honest, we all wish that were, or will be, the case. For some of us we do […]

It was a purchase made on a whim. A little after Christmas indulgence at one of my fav stores, whose initials are BBB. We were running in for one little thing, but left with a cart full of a whole lot of things. You know how it goes—the “after holiday blues” take over and a little shopping therapy is right there waiting in the shadows to catch you off guard. […]

Have you ever been in a conversation, or watching television, or reading a book, and a word just flies right at you and hits you between the eyeballs? Not literally of course. That would be awkward and dangerous. But you hear or see the word, and you are moved by it? Can anyone relate? This morning I was praying, and the word deliverance popped in my head. I started on […]

It’s a big day today. A day of milestone birthdays in our house. Maddie is turning 18, and Izzy is turning 16. Yes, we have two children, and they both share the same birthday. To ask where has the time gone, is silly. I’ve had a front row seat to every age, stage, and phase of their beautiful, young lives.  Some of the ages, stages, and phases I’ve wished to pass quickly, and […]

Recently I was cleaning out a credenza, and I came across a book I used to read to my girls when they were really young. So, I did what anyone would do with a children’s book they love. I sat down and re-read it; right in the middle of this monumental task; and right in the middle of a huge donation pile heading for a new home. To be clear, […]