by Vickie Petz | Jan 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sometimes life breaks into so many pieces, there’s no putting it back together, at least not the way it was. Grief swirls at my ankles over all that is lost, yet excitement infuses what lies ahead. A new beginning; commemorating a fresh start. I’ve moved to the...
by Vickie Petz | Dec 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Raise your hand if you ever kept a New Year’s Resolution all year long. Ever… Anyone? Okay, who made it past Easter? Yeah, me neither. Let’s get real honest, I never even finished one of those read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year plans. So there. I quit...
by Vickie Petz | Dec 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Bitterness sneaked into my soul from every direction. You heard it, I felt it and God saw it. I know a thing or two about forgiveness, but there’s a betrayal so deep it’s nearly fatal. There are words in my files I can’t let you see, because you don’t need them....
by Vickie Petz | Sep 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Sometimes when I have a lot to say, I can’t say anything at all. There are 78 thousand words in my brain dump file, so I could pull out an idea or three to share with you. Instead, I’m saying goodbye. Goodbye to the porch. When I was diagnosed with...
by Vickie Petz | Sep 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s been a long time since I let the clock beat me. In fact it’s been four years, that’s when I exited the hamster wheel via chronic illness and turned off the speedway onto the bumpy road of midlife divorce. But today, I remembered how it felt to plan more in one...
by Vickie Petz | Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
People need people. Whether you are an extrovert like me or not, you need others. We are not meant to live without community and we are all walking this thing called life together. My friends are my sounding board, my guard rails, my encouragers and my...
