Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.” -Matthew 26:39 HCSB What is your “cup”? For Michele, it was the news of cancer. Or suddenly being tossed back into raising small children. Or… Continue Reading
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Undone: Smashing Ideal Motherhood
Motherhood is more than posed and frameable moments. It’s not the sum of blissful images filling the pages of a scrapbook. A mother is made in the difficult, challenging, and very real crises that never make it to a page. It’s choosing to love when you’d rather run away. Being a mother is becoming an… Continue Reading
Undone: Running on Empty
How many of us can relate to the feeling of running on empty? For me, it comes in two ways. There’s the everyday, being a mom to four kids, exhausted, things are not up to my standard and I’m irritable…type of “I’m spent” feeling. Then, there’s the kind that comes with emotional trauma: my “undone”… Continue Reading
Undone: A Perfect Mate
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -Sam Keen (as cited in Undone, Chapter 5, by Michele Cushatt*) You may not marry a perfect person, but if you find a humble person, they will become increasingly perfect throughout their lifetime – and it will… Continue Reading
Sometimes, you feel so sure of where God is leading you. Then, without warning, He takes a completely different turn. You thought He was leading you to one place, but He had something else in mind for you. A different kind of lesson. A different kind of dancing. I’m familiar with the kind of dancing Michele… Continue Reading