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Tag: discernment
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Change Your Tune, Not Your Tone
The one place I still struggle with my bilateral cochlear implants is with music; I cannot tell if I am singing in key with others. This weakness came up in conversation recently, but my husband gently verified that I do in fact sing off key. A few days later I was saying prayers with my…
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Trusting When It Comes To Trimming
My daughter specifically requested I write a post about her since the boys and their boxes in the bathroom made headlines. I spent some time thinking about her and the variety of ways I could write about her: she is very curious and asks a lot of questions, she is very interested in other cultures…
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Something Stinks
Last week I started to notice an odor in our pantry. I couldn’t quite figure it out at first. The smell was unpleasant, but not something I could identify. Most of the food in our pantry is nonperishables, aside from two baskets of breads and produce, plus some dog food and treats. Because of this,…
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Overflowing Trash Cans and Regret
Too-big boxes lazily shoved into their tiny bathroom trashcan, that’s what I spotted when I walked in my boys’ bedroom bathroom. My inner organizer immediately wanted to grab those boxes out of the trash and take them down to the recycle bin, but instead, I resisted and left them there. The boys would remove those…
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Wet Towels and Discernment
Right before bedtime last night I was looking for a roll of toilet paper to place on the empty holder in my boys’ bathroom. As I opened their cabinet, I found a pile of wet towels stuffed under the sink and the toilet paper adjacent to said towels, had grown in size and the layers…