Five years ago this week was one of the longest weeks of my life. My diagnosis had been confirmed the week before, and we were trying to prepare for surgery the following week, but even that date was in the air. My children were in elementary school, and we were doing our best to give them safe answers when we didn’t know many answers, and keep them feeling safe when that definition was a bit wobbly for all of us. I was trying to focus on work enough to assure that things could run smoothly without me (*update, apparently they can 😉 iykyk). I was trying to process so much…

Today marks a year since my first chemotherapy treatment. A year since a very needy season of my life picked up steam. So, so much kindness was shown to my family. Over the months while I was receiving treatment, I jotted down some thoughts on how I could best love on others once I was able to shower the love on others instead of just receiving it myself.  I’m going to share those thoughts plus some others with you in the hopes that they encourage you to extend kindness to someone who could use a little. Food – The need for food is universal, but tastes and household structure around food vary greatly.…

You know what happens when you write a blog post with “abundance” in the title? The enemy swoops in and attacks, causing you to question every line you typed. But, let me tell you, the enemy ain’t got nothin’ on my King [I know, preach Devin!]. For every doubt, every question, every bit of melancholy, Jesus meets me. He’s reminding me that I don’t have to be crippled by chemo for Him to carry me! Summer ended. School started back. I expected the hardest part of the transition to be my eldest starting middle school. Nope. The hardest part of school starting back was going back into the routine of “school normal”…