Tag: god
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A Word From The Word

By Lisa S. Tarno It’s been a year! How do I mean that? Good? Bad? In totality both. I have been hyper focused on health and injury stuff because I’ve had to be. Normally, I am a go-to-the-doctor-once-a-year for the free physical but this year has been excessive for me with alarm bells going off…
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Dealing With Our Grief By Finding Hope In God

By Lisa S. Tarno Getting the news that she died last week sent shock waves through our mom community! My initial response was visceral and I let out an audible cry of disbelief! I had been praying for (her) and especially with her emergency surgery. I looked back at our text messages and the prayers…
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The Waiting Room

By Lisa S. Tarno Confession: I don’t like the waiting rooms of life! I’m not just referring to a doctor’s office but the figurative waiting rooms. This reflection is right in the moment, wrestling with God’s timing, and super frustrated….because, c’mon God…seriously? This has just become RIDICULOUS! I mean, I know God is in control…
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Can We Really Live Without Expectations?

By Lisa S. Tarno A friend of mine keeps coaching me to live free of having expectations on anyone, but in particular a relationship that is taking up a lot of emotional energy as of late, I hear what she says and it sounds like a good action plan but I admit it hasn’t fully…
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Finding My Rhythm

By Lisa S Tarno Have you ever felt out of sorts, stuck in a rut, unmotivated and/or discombobulated? Maybe it comes from feeling overwhelmed at the tasks before you and instead of tackling them, you put them off for another day? Maybe something has hindered your regular way of doing things, like an injury or…
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What Are You Being Known FOR?

“Watch out for the Christian who spends more time telling you what she is against rather than what she is for.” ~ Kristi Mclelland
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Note To Self: We Still Have Hope!

By Lisa S. Tarno I love to be gobsmacked with revelation in scripture! Author and teacher, Kristi Mclelland pointed out something I have completely overlooked in the Bible. In the book of Luke, chapter 4:14-21 Jesus is reading from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and recited chapter 61 but left out the latter portion…
