by skimhenson | Dec 20, 2017 | letting go
“Until your knees finally hit the floor you’re just playing at life, and on some level you’re scared because you know you’re just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins.” Marianne Williamson in her...
by skimhenson | Mar 25, 2017 | letting go
“Let go or be dragged.” Zen Proverb In my last blog post, “Arguing and Bargaining with God … again,” I wrote about fighting with God about our son’s diagnosis and surgery versus doing what God asked, which was to let go. A friend commented on my post, “I think I...
by skimhenson | Mar 11, 2017 | letting go
“When you argue against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Two weeks ago, I heard the word “cancer.” I wouldn’t be anymore wound up about...
by skimhenson | Aug 26, 2016 | freedom, getting your own life, letting go, relationships, relationships, parent and child
“If we had God’s power, we would change everything. If we had God’s wisdom, we’d change nothing.” Scott Richardson If you’re a parent, especially a mother, you likely know the feeling when family gathers all together after not seeing...
by skimhenson | May 13, 2013 | depression, freedom, letting go
After reading Dave Hamlin’s blog post Wanted: Dead and Alive, I think I got it. Dave describes better than I ever could what God’s been up to for the last, oh, I don’t know, 55 or so years of my life. The last eight have been especially significant, as well as...
by skimhenson | Oct 14, 2012 | letting go, pain
After her 20-year marriage ended, my sister-in-law talked about what her counselor shared to help with the grief. “You’re not grieving over what you had. You’re grieving over what you wish you had,” she said. Grief doesn’t distinguish between losing something real and...