Category: The Tough Stuff
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Christmas is Ruined – Part Two
Christmas truly was the most wonderful time of the year. I felt safe and loved, surrounded by family and lots of Christmas cheer. Then my family was torn apart. Instead of Christmas being my most favorite time of the year, I dreaded it. I dreaded it because I couldn’t ignore what a sad path my…
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You intended to harm me…
Somehow even with everything that God has walked me through in my life, I still get scared when I’m going through something and I can’t immediately figure out the “why”. When I’ve tried on every possible “why” scenario I can think of and none of them make sense, I start to panic. When I panic…
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Goodbye Square Squad
So I thought it was all wrapped up in a perfect package. You have Cheap Seats and you have Square Squad. Cheap Seat people come and go, Square Squad people always stay. But nothing in life is a perfect package. What happens when your Square Squad leaves you?
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Shifting Expectations
When we truly put our expectations in God, when our expectation is from Him and not from people, we know that no matter how the story twists and turns, God is weaving it all together. We can trust HIM even when PEOPLE (or things, or processes) don’t do what we thought that they should.
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Bend Up, Not In
LESSONS FROM THE DESERT OF MY LIFE I believe that sharing our stories and our experiences in a vulnerable way is the most powerful thing we can do for ourselves and for each other. If there is one thing I have learned after 17 years in the financial industry it’s that the numbers on…
Richelle Hofer 