This is an unusual week at Life is a Bowl of Wedgies because I'm sharing some of your stories with your permission and with complete anonymity. It started with this comment/question I posted on Facebook last week. I'm watching a lot of people right now go through separation or divorce. I watch broken families come to their kids school programs, church, special events, etc. and ... Read More »
Difficult topics
How the church can walk beside recovering addicts
I am learning from a new friend who is serving God by showing up weekly and walking beside women recovering from various addictions. Our conversation started with a few questions about how to help those who are struggling with drug and alcohol addictions. What started as a conversation ended in this blog post. Thank you, Sally, for writing this so that we can all have a better ... Read More »
She asked: is it wrong to lie about your faith when faced with death?
You've probably heard the horrific news of yet another school shooting - this time on a Community College campus in Oregon. Our kids saw the news and of course this brought up questions. From news reports I've read, the gunman asked people if they were a Christian and if they said yes he shot them in the head. If they said they weren't a Christian he shot them in the leg or ... Read More »
Putting into practice “soul talk”
Our weekend was a great one topped off by me getting to go to church Sunday morning. Oh how I missed being there these last 7 weeks so it felt wonderful to sing and worship with my church family. The next morning we sent Sophie off to overnight camp and had a great day at home. Monday night I went to bed and out of NOWHERE I started feeling weird. Panicky. Just all around ... Read More »
Fighting fears of domestic violence with scripture
I'm speaking on a subject that is extremely serious and one in which I have no personal experience except walking with people through this horrifying experience. There are things that I don't understand fully and I'm thankful for trained domestic violence therapists who are helping women every day move to freedom. But what I do want to talk about today is what to do when fear ... Read More »
Blogging through the real and the hard #anxiety
I desire to be as honest as I can be in this blog space for the glory of God and building up of others. Okay, and for my own sanity because I process life many times through stringing words together and slapping them down on paper. There are things of course that I can't always share in this space for confidentiality and respect issues but I want to speak from the depths of my ... Read More »
This is the story of how karma bit me
So back in good ole college days I was in a prayer group every year with different students. Every year we'd introduce ourselves and tell one thing we would like the group to pray about. Every year I'd wig my classmates out by saying something to this degree: Hi my name is Melody. When I was young I broke my leg. We were poor and had money for the surgery or the metal rod they ... Read More »
What Infertility Taught Me About my God
So where in the world did the blog title "Life is a Bowl of Wedgies" come from? The theme behind my blog relates back to years of intense infertility treatments, unanswered prayers (according to our wishes) and what seemed like hosting a gazillion baby showers for everyone including old people in Europe. It was during that time that my seemingly perfect world became ... Read More »