by Hannah Jessen Conway | Aug 30, 2024 | faith, hearing loss, mama-ing
This past January, I sent out a New Year’s card because a Christmas card just didn’t come together in time. My sister got married in early December, and then our second son Shepherd was born on December 17––so we had just a few things on our plate. After...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | Mar 12, 2023 | faith, Uncategorized
In typical North Carolina fashion, we had a warm February that caused many of the trees and flowers in my yard and neighborhood to bloom early. While it was beautiful for a time, we hit a cold spell last week and woke up to sleet and snow on Sunday morning. As we...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | Jan 15, 2023 | faith, Uncategorized
My word for the year is brave. I once had someone say to me that I was a brave person when it came to the big things – as in, I would pack up my life and move to South America for a year when I was 22 (which I did). But, I was overly cautious in the small things...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | Sep 11, 2022 | faith, mental health
Living in the present isn’t easy. In part 1 of my two-part blog series on seasons, I talked about how nostalgia for the past and dreams of the future can become idols if we use them to escape our present. Another way we’re tempted to avoid the present is by writing...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | May 6, 2022 | faith, Uncategorized
“At peace ≠ in control.” This was all I wrote in my journal the other day. Because as I’ve watched my baby learn to self-soothe, I’ve realized the healthy and unhealthy ways I too tend to self-soothe. In moments of stress or anxiety, my way of coping is to...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | Mar 11, 2022 | faith, mental health
I first felt compelled to try to give up hurry and worry for Lent when I found this note tucked in my Bible next to the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10. It was a poem I had written some years back and it read: Lord, prune the Martha spirit away from my heart....
