Maybe I'm Not a Doormat After All
If you've been reading this blog long then you know when I take a lengthy break, there's usually a stressful, emotionally-driven reason. My latest absence is no different. But the good news is that the same situation is pushing me to write another personal post - something I haven't done in over a year. One of the most popular posts on this blog is Extravagantly . . . A Personal Post . The basis for that post was my decision in life to love extravagantly, out of the ordinary, with everything I have. To be honest, it's not much of a decision. I think it just happens to be the way God made me. Even on the days I would wish it away or find myself wanting to protect the fractured pieces of my worn, tired heart, I find I can't be anything different than what I am. I don't even know how to love a little, or in measured increments. But from what I'm reading in my Bible, that seems to fit right in with God's instructions: Love from the center of who