by Michelle C. Martin | Jun 2, 2023 | Family Life, Health, Marriage, Parenting, Prayer
Anxiety Induced Season of Life: Anxiety is the worst! In November of 2021 my anxiety was through the roof! In 2021 we had a very busy year! Joshua and I graduated in May, got married in June, I started graduate school in August and found out we were pregnant in...
by Michelle C. Martin | May 12, 2023 | Church, Prayer, Spirituality
A long time ago, I saw an image that left a huge impact on me. Jesus standing on the rough waves amidst the storm, the apostles’ boat in the background, reaching down to catch a half-sunken Simon Peter by the hand. It was captioned: “Focus on me, not the storm.” It’s...
by Michelle C. Martin | Apr 25, 2023 | Family Life, Health, Parenting, Prayer, Spirituality
Anxiety Is Easy “Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in...
by Elizabeth Sala | Jan 17, 2023 | Church, Quince Prep, Society, Teachings
Jane Austen’s character Fanny Price models the phrase “nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” I remember a time in college when I called my dad for advice about managing anxiety. I felt overwhelmed by the social pressure of school and...
by Elizabeth Sala | Nov 11, 2022 | Health, Society, Spirituality
Here’s a hot take: maybe death is like a tooth extraction. Okay, maybe not that hot. C.S. Lewis pioneered this analogy in The Screwtape Letters. But it’s a statement I’ve been meditating on recently because last week I underwent a wisdom tooth extraction at the...
