Dr. Heather Thompson Day is an interdenominational speaker and contributor for Religion News Service, Newsweek and the Barna Group. She is also an Associate Professor of Communication at Colorado Christian University. She is passionate about supporting women, and runs an online community called I’m That Wife which has over 100k followers.
Heather has been interviewed by BBC Radio Live, and believes her calling is to stand in the gaps of our churches for young people. She is the author of 6 books; including Confessions of a Christian Wife and How to Feed the Mediavore.
She resides in Lakewood, Colorado with her husband, Pastor Seth Day, and their three children, London, Hudson, and Sawyer Day.
Finding good friends can be hard. Some may say that once you become an adult there is less drama and cliques and that making and keeping friends is easier. That hasn’t been the case so far for me. I remember as a child and through my teenage years, I was always awkward and uncomfortable. It seemed I could never fit in no matter how hard I tried. And believe me, I tried. But for some reason, despite my efforts, I was always the one to be left out if I wasn’t actively working to put myself there. I was the...
This morning, school drop-off started off like any other (it was, after all, my second school drop-off of the morning and my last, so I knew I was in the home stretch). And that’s when I saw it. In the middle of a stand-still car line, waiting for the school’s doors to open, two mothers saw each other from across the way. They both jumped out of their parked cars and literally ran to each other. I looked around to see if anyone else was witnessing this, not even sure what I was witnessing, but most people were looking down...
It is so easy to look at your friend and see all of the beauty within her. It is so easy to notice the strength of God upon her that she walks in during times of hardship. You see how her laugh dances across the room, and how the light of Christ radiates through her even when she’s not even aware. It’s not hard to offer her grace and compassion when life is challenging. As she cries you never tell her to get over it or move on. RELATED: Find a Friend Who Points You To Jesus And Keep Her...
A friend once asked me if I wanted to know what another mom said about me behind my back. I politely said, “No, thank you.” To this day I still have no idea what was said about me. And friend, it doesn’t matter. RELATED: I No Longer Sit At Tables Where I Might Be The Topic When I Get Up What I do know is that I saw this mom a few weeks later at the grocery store and greeted her with a smile and open arms. To this day, she has no idea that I am aware of the...
What is friendship? I can tell you this my group—my girls—were found in an unexpected place, in an unexpected way, in an unexpected time. We are part of an all-girls small rural vet clinic. We fight like sisters sometimes (OK a lot of the time), are friends, and have become family. RELATED: Dear Old, Work Friends: I Miss You The saying goes that coworkers sometimes know us better than our own families. We spend every day together, we know how hard and challenging a day in our lives are because we’ve lived it too, and in our field, we literally...
“Why is motherhood hard?” my good-intentioned, kind-hearted, and (clearly) child-free friend asked me. I paused, staring into my glass of generic white wine. After so many months of being confined to my home in mom mode, I was happy to be drinking anything that was one, in a breakable glass, and two, all mine. How honest should I be? I contemplated. I believed my friend wanted to have children one day but it didn’t seem on the near horizon. Maybe, in that case, I could share my true feelings, rather than keep to the unspoken and seemingly unbreakable code: don’t...
I think we all experience a one-sided friendship at some point in our lives. Maybe it’s a friendship where we are putting in more effort than the other person. Maybe it’s a friendship where the other person only calls us when they need something. No matter how kind or generous we are in these friendships, they never seem to change. I went through a few years of life when I seemed to attract friends who only called or texted when they needed something. These were friends who I would have over and spend time with, but the friendship was not...
I had a host of friends before I became a mom. They swirled around me like insects fluttering around a table lamp. I had friends from high school who hunted me down years after our paths had spiraled in different directions. I had friends from college who checked on me long after we had tossed our graduation caps in the air. At work, I easily forged new solid friendships. I spent my weekends hopping from one coffee date to another. There was never a dull moment in my heydays. Then I met a wonderful gentleman who swept me off my...
When you ask me for help . . . It feels like you trust me. It feels like maybe we might be best friends. I feel special. Most of all I feel happy to make your day a little bit easier, knowing I have something to offer that helps. I have a purpose. I feel connected. When you text me at night while I put the dishes away, “Hey I really need help tomorrow, can you pick up the kids for school?” I text you all the emojis back. A hundred percent! Totally! Thumbs up! I might even tell my...
Have you ever had one of those dreams inside a dream? I woke up one morning and realized I was a two-faced friend. It hit me straight in the stomach. However, shortly after, I opened my eyes again and realized I was never really a two-faced friend at all. I was merely a mirror of one. For as long as I could remember, my typical days and nights were filled with it. The lingering two-faced friend mist that I couldn’t quite see through. It wasn’t even a dream. It was an all-around nightmare. Making plans that weren’t all-inclusive, secrets (that...
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