Recently, someone told me I have permission to be gentle with myself. It’s a common phrase and one I’ve used myself. I thought about what being gentle with myself might look like as I processed the hard times before our family. The world tells me “being gentle with myself” is an action: taking the day off work, snuggling under a …
The Gentleness of God
We’ve had some hard news. And a loved one has had some even harder news. My husband is with our extended family, and he’s five thousand, three hundred, and forty-seven miles away. And, I’m back at home looking after our kids. Because of this news, we’ve become fully-fledged members of the sandwich generation––caring for elderly relatives and young children. I …