Nice to meet you—I’m Megan. My husband and I got married when I was 19, had 3 babies within 4 years, and changed career paths, homes and churches a handful of times. Lots of transitions! One of the wildest transitions for me was walking through the toddler season for the first time while also caring for a new baby. I was sleep-deprived, overwhelmed because I didn’t yet have the skills I needed to meet the demands of my new normal and trying to remember what the heck the purpose of what I was doing even was. Maybe you’ve had a season like that too. Maybe you’re in one right now.

All I wanted was some sense of being myself again. I ended up labeling what I wanted as “joy”. I wanted to get myself to feel like a good mom / have a smile on my face / maybe have a little motivation to keep up cleaning oatmeal off the walls. And that must be joy, right?

Well, no. Not really. There’s only one source of the kind of joy I needed—the joy that you need, too.