Sue Bidstrup / Great Big YES!

Encouraging Women to Live Faithful, Bold, Abundant Lives!

  • Belly Laughs

    We need sun.  We chased it all the way to this beautiful, faraway, no cars allowed, feels like Survivor Island. And we found it. For 2 days. And then on the third day, the rains came. I prayed to God for sun on that third day. My mom was arriving…

  • Those Little Reminders

      These little reminders are on my kitchen windowsill. You know how you look at some things all the time and then you become blind to them? I saw them with new eyes the other day.  I was thinking…hmmm…Proverbs and Dr. Suess…how do they go together?  But then I realized…

  • Jesus is the Intention

    Lent is starting.  Ash Wednesday is here. This brings up a treasure trove of emotions. Being raised Catholic Lent meant that we wouldn’t eat meat on Fridays and we would “give something up”…meaning chocolate or swearing or complaining. Kind of like a diet.  Temporary, restricting and doesn’t create lasting change.  At…