The Consilium Blog
The Cost of Motherhood
“Making the decision to have a child . . . is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ” Elizabeth Stone To become a mother is to risk heartbreak. Or, rather, to guarantee it. Sure, there are also joys so intense you feel like...
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ROCKABYE BABY
My two-year-old daughter was missing. I’d been sitting in a lawn chair under the Georgia pines that summer morning while I watched her play in the driveway and must have dozed off again. I ran around the yard and through the house and back outside calling for her—not...
From Isolation to Community
There have been a couple of times in my life when I have learned and then re-learned the importance of leaning on the Lord. Most recently, I was reminded of this during the last year. For those of you who know me well, you know that about a year and a half ago, my...
A Post-It Note Kind Of Life
Giving birth seemed to have unraveled half of my brain, now menopause is going to finish it off!
In today's episode, Diane and Holly interview Lyli Dunbar, member of The Consilium Leadership...
What Difference Can One Woman Make?
On September 21, 1911, a daughter was born in a small Missouri town, and her parents named her Beulah, “Favored and blessed of the Lord.” Would she be favored and blessed of the Lord? By the time Beulah Cox Moore was six years old she walked hand in hand with her...
In this episode, Holly Barrett shares a little about her background, how she came to be part of The Consilium,...
A Letter From My Eighty Year Old Self
I was reminiscing today about our beautiful life and thought I’d share some thoughts with you. Lessons if you will. Don’t mind the tone. I’m not shaking my finger, I’m offering you some perspective. And we both know how much we value perspective.
