Romance is hard work. Does romance have a place? @Cara_putman blogs about why romance and love is important. Click To Tweet In our novels, we often stop at the point that a couple is discovering and leaning into their new love — unless it’s a marriage of convenience, and then they have to learn to love each other as newly …
Beloved and what it’s meaning right now…
It’s March 4th as I write this. We’re already two months into 2019, and I wonder how that happened. So many things I planned to accomplish by now, but so many relationships that have gone deeper. How is your journey into this year’s word going? @cara_putman shares and a #giveaway. #faith Click To Tweet I ran some intervals this afternoon …
When Love Says Rest
Last week as I was digging through old posts, I found this one. The eerie thing is I could write it almost word for word today with the same soul, deep longing. God has had me on a path of deconstruction for the last year, and I feel like we may just be turning the corner to reconstruction. I can …
Balancing Callings: An Oldie but Goodie
From time to time, I dig through the archives of this blog…it’s been something of a journal for me for almost ten years. This week, I ran across this post on balancing calling. It is still as true today as it was when I first wrote it. And I needed the words today as much as I did when I …
Being a Real Woman
There is so much talk in the media today about women and how oppressed we are. We had a vibrant discussion on my facebook profile recently about how blessed I feel that my mom somehow raised me to be a strong woman, but one who didn’t look to my gender as the excuse or reason for why things do or …
Reasons to be Thankful
Thanksgiving is next week, and that means our thoughts turn to all of the reasons we have to be thankful. Thankfulness is a choice. No matter what life throws our way, we can be #thankful says @cara_putman Click To Tweet There is so much I have to be thankful for. A wonderful husband. Four amazing kids. A house that more …
Monday Meditations: Finding God in the Pauses
Tomorrow I head to ACFW, which means I’m a little swamped. So today I’m digging into the blog archives. This post is from 2012. As my fall is racing away from me, I found it poignant to look back at this post. In many ways, life is filled with seasons of waiting and pausing. It’s so hard to savor those seasons. It’s …
To Dance in the Waves
This week I’m at a conference in Southern California. Last night I walked along the beach, listening to the Pacific Ocean roar as its waves crashing against the beach. As I walked, I was reminded awesome my God is, and yet I stayed on the walkway…not along the sand. Partly this was because by the time I could get to the beach it was …
4 Tricks for Living in the Moment
Yesterday morning, the KLOVE morning show was talking about the “this is your brain, this is drugs, this is your brain on drugs” commercial. Some of you remember that commercial quite vividly. Others have no idea what I’m talking about. Some days it feels like: this is my life, this is my life on steroids, this is my life on …
The Do-It-All Mom? Who me?
This week the do-it-all nature of life is a tad overwhelming, so I’m bringing up this column. Come back tomorrow as I talk about one reason I can “appear” to be the Do-It-All Mom. By the way, I can’t believe how much bigger my kids are today!3 Cara (Febr 2012) This week I’m starting a new venture. I’m a …