When Your Past Says You Are Not Enough, Part 2

I am so glad you are here. Come along as I dive in to the topics of time and money. Oh, on the surface they have little to do with self-worth, but we are here to get to the nitty gritty, where Jesus meets us to shake our souls more toward Him: As God prepared my heart …

When Your Past Says You are Not Enough, Part 1 of 2

Welcome back to my blog, where I go beneath the surface and share all that Jesus shows me. For those of you who follow me on social media, know this is my husband’s and my anniversary month, celebrating 14 years of life together. So, we will dive into some marriage stuff. We have a guest …

My Jesus, My Blessing: Five Minute Friday

Have you ever felt His favor? Been undeniably blessed from above? I love my Jesus who hears our prayers before we speak them, who takes on any amount of broken to mend, whose love reaches far beyond the physical world. Being with Him is a blessing, a life like no other, a panacea, a peace. …

FBS: It’s Just Me

Welcome back to the place where we dive into the things that matter. Today's post is in honor of my mom, the flighty woman who went before me. She showed me how to have humor about yourself. EnJOY! Full Brain Syndrome … if you are new here, FBS is a condition describing your brain on …

Guest Dena Talmage: The Uninvited Visitor

Today, I welcome fellow writer and sister in Christ, Dena Talmage. God placed us in the same critique group for our writing. Though we have only been together in the group a couple of times, He connected our hearts, overlapping certain paths we shared without ever knowing of each other. Today, I thank Jesus for helping …

Five Minute Friday: My Steady, A Poem

  Steady is even, unextreme Crawling out of bitterness screaming Dragging through depression, you seem Half-dead, life out-of-sync, like in a dream Someone dies, and steady is turned upside down Everything you thought, felt and held onto Gone, evaporated, never to retrieve or own Give me a steady firm ground in faith Unshaken, unstirred by …

The Sacredness of Death

Welcome back to the place where I sometimes ponder the tough stuff. If we leave pretending behind and commit to be real, then we encounter all, no shortcuts. So stay with me if you can. We can have confidence we are not alone when we walk with Jesus through the scary, hard to know places. …

How Do You Define Sacred?

How often do you say the word sacred? Before my forties, I probably never said it Anything holy would have been followed by profanity. I know, hard to believe when you see pictures of me gazing up at Our Creator with awe and adoration, right? Sacred is life-altering.   Recently, I spoke the word for …

#FiveMinuteFriday: Worth

Worth is sticky like double-sided tape. Sometimes stuff flies through the air, insults, discontent, perceived rejection and it sticks. Meanwhile Jesus is on the inside reaching, embracing, abiding where no stickiness is needed. He is just there. There is no end and no beginning to Him, and it is hard to tell where He is …

Perfectionism: When Expectations of Self are Too High

Good morning! If its not morning when you read this, it will be soon 🙂 This post is for all my friends who struggle with perfectionism in some way, shape or form. This is the real struggle from the real me. May you be encouraged. What happens when expectations of yourself are too high? When …