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For as long as I have been blogging, I've held onto the secret desire to make something of myself by writing. Live the dream, right? One perfect post, and I'd be rolling in publishing offers and signing parties. Well, not that extreme. But, you know, quit my day job. Have a substantial social media presence. Be the woman other women want to be. Hold my own with Beth Moore and Jen Hatmaker and Sarah Bessey and Jennie Allen. Move to Texas or Canada and just be another IT Christian momma like the women I secretly ADORE. And... then there is real life, and writer's block, and horrible tragic things that threaten to suck the very soul from the core of my being. 2016 is not a year I want to relive. So many good things, but so many bad, dark days at the end. The one thing I know for sure about being a Christian is that God never promised an easy road. Jesus made it pretty darn clear we would have troubles...that things would be hard. And, e