I’m an eternal optimist and recovering overdoer. I like to think I can do more than I can in the time that I have. I also like to believe things will go “right” with minimal snags. Life doesn’t always go as I want it to. So even though I set ambitious goals each year, IContinue reading “BREATHE”
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Book Review: Take Back Your Time
Life balance is not a calendar or time issue. Life balance is a heart issue.
That’s Why God is Good
Marriage is hard. God is good. This year, Racer and I celebrated 10 years of marriage and hard work. It’s been a lot of hard work. We both brought luggage into our relationship. His parents divorced when he was young. I had been married and divorced. He had expectations. I had expectation. Our premarital counseling wasContinue reading “That’s Why God is Good”
New Goals for Fall
A lot is changing in my life right now. We’ve moved to a whole new place, we have a new baby coming, I’m currently a stay-at-home mom again, and God is knitting our family together in ways that I’m watching in awe and disbelief and wonder. And, it’s beginning to look a lot like FallContinue reading “New Goals for Fall”
Closed doors and open windows…
There is a phrase – “when God closes a door, he opens a window.” I have closed a door in my life. I have stepped away from youth ministry. Between family, current ministry, and the new ministry that God is leading me to, I just had too many doors open. I couldn’t really spend theContinue reading “Closed doors and open windows…”
Rev. Kris Mares 