Hey there! I’m Mikala—a family doctor, wife, mother of 5, well-being advocate, and author of the books Ordinary on Purpose and Everything I Wish I Could Tell You About Midlife. Each month my writing reaches millions of women, but I am thrilled to be connecting with YOU. I’m truly grateful to have you here!
All in Marriage
Somewhere along the way…we stopped trying to change one another. We stopped keeping track and stopped keeping score and decided to be on the same team.
I can’t believe this is my life. It’s messy and hard and ordinary and mostly unplanned. And so ridiculously beautiful.
It turns out our happily ever after looks a bit different from the one I envisioned…
Because all this hustle and bustle? And all this stuff to DO? It means I’m really living this good, hard, ordinary life.
Sure, sometimes we miss in mid-air. But sometimes…our Love Arrows land right on target.
Life is complicated and messy and hard. Yet sometimes the beauty of an ordinary moment quite nearly takes my breath away.
The truth is, for us REAL passion doesn’t begin at bedtime but in the little moments of connection throughout the day.
It’s kids and car payments and over-flowing piles of laundry and fifty million places to be on Saturday afternoons.
Is there anything more extraordinary than really LIVING your one precious, beautiful, ordinary life?? Being grateful for ALL of it (or at least all you can)?
It may not always be pretty, but it is beautiful all the same. Right here in the middle of this ordinary life.
I know you’re out there. Pretending. Trotting out that same tired response, “I’m fine.” Getting your work done. Holding it all together.
Maybe the next time life doesn’t go as planned, we can have faith that His perfect plans will be SO MUCH BIGGER.
I can serve and love and work and pray and give the very best of myself to the task right in front of my face.
I don’t drink because alcohol and drugs nearly killed my husband. It nearly broke EVERYTHING I had. My marriage. My family. My beautiful future.
I noticed how the people with the most painful stories sometimes had the most serene smiles on their faces and how they leapt to help the next person in line.
There was a time in my life my husband was going to die... I thought it was supposed to be a romantic Love Story. I had no idea it would rock me to my core.
Our happily ever after is far from fancy and not even close to glamorous...
