The Momma in the Middle

I don't have time to write this blog post. I still have a TON of client work due today. I still have overdue fall challenge posts I was suspposed to be publishing here. I still have to announce that my freelance website has been completely revamped and that you should all go check it out: www.tiffanyaller.com . All of that junk aside, here's why I'm posting today: because I have such a very important reminder for you. Yes, YOU. (Quick note: if you aren't a believer, now's a good time to exit. We'll see you at the next post.) God loves you.  God loves you when times are good. God loves you when times are bad. God loves you when YOU are bad. God loves you when frustration takes over. God loves you when blessings return. (God wants you to know that even in the midst of the worst kinds of frustration, there's still blessings to be found - they never left you after all.) Here's why I know this to be true. My life has been less than p...

I've been worried about something for a bit now. Not a major worry. Nothing world ending, nothing health or kiddo related. A minor worry, really. Without getting into specifics, it has to do with one of my (many) jobs and although I should have shrugged it off weeks ago, it's stayed with me. Nagged me. Woken me up daily at 4 a.m. I know, I'm a bit melodramatic. I didn't know what in the world to do about it. Should I say something? Write an email? Make a big stink over something that's ultimately a little issue? Enlist a neutral 3rd party? Just let it go? I couldn't process it. At all. Then, last night, I remembered the Youth lesson I taught the last week of August about stress. In the lesson, which coincided with the start of the school year, we talked about how there's so dang many stressors in life. Work, school, family, chores, friends, health...the list is pretty literally never-ending. All of those areas, if they get a bit out of sync, ca...