Category: Soft Heart Series

• What I Learned from a Fight with My Husband

  

  Toward the end of my month-long reorganizing, repairing, and purging that I was doing in my house in June, my husband and I had a fight. Mind you, it wasn’t related to the hard work that we were doing on the house. But it was a doozy of a misunderstanding on both our parts. I…

  BethSteffaniak

  July 19, 2016

  About Me, Acceptance, Alienation, Anger, Avoidance, Blaming, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Communication, Conflict, Emotions, Expectations, Faith in God, False Beliefs, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, Humility, Insecurity, Love, Love of God, Marriage, Negative Self-Talk, Pain, Perspective, Pride, Realistic Expectations, Resentments, Responsibility, Safety, Self-awareness, Self-deception, Self-Reflection, Soft Heart Series, Surrender, Trust, Truth, Vulnerability, Wedded Wednesday, Withdrawal

  Conflict, Courage, God’s Protection, Love, Perspective, Resentments, Truth, Vulnerability, Withdrawal

• How Grief Softens the Heart

  

  When I set about to organize, clean, and prepare my house for selling last month, I didn’t realize how this process of purging would hit so close to home . . . as in my heart. One of the monumental moments happened when my hubby took a couple of days to get away and prepare…

  BethSteffaniak

  July 12, 2016

  About Me, Acceptance, Change, Christ-Centered, Emotions, Grief, Humility, Love of God, Motherhood, Parenthood, Pride, Self-awareness, Self-Reflection, Soft Heart Series, Spiritual Growth, Surrender, Thankfulness, Wedded Wednesday

  Empty-nest, Grief, Letting go, Motherhood, Parenthood, Soft Heart, Surrender, Transitions

• Purging Pride And Linkup is Back!

  

  As many of you know, my hubby Gary and I have wanted to get our house ready to put on the market for quite some time (we’re empty-nesters who desperately need to downsize). So I pulled away from “everything”—including blogging—for the month of June to get our house in shape for that big day that…

  BethSteffaniak

  July 5, 2016

  About Me, Anger, Attitude, Blogging, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Conflict, Discouragement, Encouragement, Faith in God, Forgiveness, Humility, Love of God, Marriage, Perspective, Pride, Resentments, Self-awareness, Self-deception, Self-Reflection, Soft Heart Series, Spiritual Growth, Surrender, Truth

  Conflict, Humility, Perspective, Pride, Resolution, Soft Heart, Surrender, Trust God, Wait on God