What do you do in a situation where your morals and your faith are tested? In a split second you have to make a choice to stand up for what you believe and what is right, or stay silent, or even deny the truth. It should be an easy answer. Perhaps it could be something […]
I look at where I am standing today, and without a doubt I know that it is all Jesus. When I can be joyful in the midst of sorrow, when I can truly dance with my girls, live and laugh a little even when our hearts are sore, that’s all because of Jesus. In our
Where is your heart? What condition is your heart in? I am not talking about physically but spiritually. Thinking back to my childhood I remember the saying “follow your heart and chase your dreams” and as the years have gone by those words seem to fade and the saying “think with your head and not
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Will you answer the greatest call on your life, following Jesus whole heartedly? Will you let it ring and ignore it or will you let it go to an answering machine and listen to the message but still choose to ignore it? Will you eagerly pick up the call or will you need to force
In our family we call our inner circle, our little bubble. Our inner circle consists of people, family members and friends that walk a close journey with us. What does your bubble look like, does it consist only of you, or you and your husband, or perhaps it consists of everyone under the sun. I
For the last little while my heart and my perspective have been shifting, to not look at difficult and trying times with much heartache and anxiety but to look for the beauty that can be found within those messes. It is so easy to be reminded of the past and the good old days and
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When you look at me from the outside, you may see someone who is all fine, and generally together (most of the time). Just by looking at me on the outside, it does not give you an indication of my struggles, my thoughts and the weeds that I am contending with to live life fully.
The famous words, “It happens for a reason,” is not words that are comforting for me. I often used these words, but when my husband was murdered these words were far from comforting. I could not understand why he was taken and it is probably something I never will understand. My only comforting thought is
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Our everyday lives are full of ups and downs and to be honest they are just BUSY! In all of the crazy and chaos, in a bad day or in a tough season, is it possible for us to remain full of joy and positive? Absolutely, it is possible when we realize where our joy
I cannot believe that I am writing this and it is already the second month of 2022. One month down and eleven still to go. At the beginning of this year I felt the Lord lay a word on my heart. REDISCOVER. I wondered how much of that I have been actively doing this past