The 2020 Pandemic Exposed My Weaknesses, Defenses, Strengths, and Potential

Not unlike most of the world, 2020 threw me into a tailspin and exposed a shadow side I was unaware of. My last post was a tribute to turning 50, where the future was my to possess. Little did I know four weeks later, everyone's world would be turned upside down. And I would see just how emotionally unhealthy I really was.
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A Letter to My 8-Year-Old Self

You'll spend a lot of your life feeling like you don't fit in. Most of the time, you'll believe it's because you're not enough, and then you'll swing to you're just too much. Somewhere along the way, you'll lose yourself, but you'll discover her again. You will actually fall in love with her, and fitting in won't seem to be that big of a deal. But it will suck that the revelation comes so much later in life.

Victoria's Secret VS Jesus' Secret (For Women Only)

I'm fourty-two years old and I walked into my first Victoria's Secret store this weekend. I actually wasn't there for me, but I'd always heard that a woman should be measured for bra size, so while I was there I thought - what the heck let's…

Helping Your Husband

Woman: I know when he's been drinking, and I ask him every time, and every time he lies. It always causes a fight, and I am so tired of the fighting... Me: Why do you ask him the question, if you already know the answer? Woman: I want him…

Protecting Your Family

I'm treading water in the deep end... I'm raising teenagers counter culture to the world they are submerged in daily. The battle for their souls and destinies were waged at their conception. The devil knew the home they were being raised in,…

The Blind Side Hit!

SLAM! A throbbing head, a sick stomach. Intense pressure building on the shoulders, the back feels like it's literally hunching over from the weight. The body is drained from all it's energy, and words are absent apart from Help me God... That…

Power Of The Spoken Word

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 They're standing in your kitchen falling apart. Their life is crumbling before their very eyes. Everything they knew to be reliable has become unreliable.…

What Limits God...

For nothing is impossible with God. Luke 1:37 The bell rings, the sixth graders return to their classrooms. The teacher excuses the students who do not stay in class for math - that would have been me. I picked up my book, my pencil, and my…

The Kiss of Betrayal

...I know the ones I have chosen. But this fulfills the Scripture that says, ‘The one who eats my food has turned against me.’ John 13:18  Betrayal... it's one thing to extend forgiveness to someone who cuts you off on the freeway - it's…

Accepting Change And Launching Into Flight

It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. Heb. 11:8 At the break of dawn, in early spring and winter,…

The Answer To Someone's Prayer

Lord, use me. Help me to see the things you ask of me, and help me to do what you ask.   Maybe you've prayed that before. I have on more than one occasion. Recently, I got to see something I'd never seen before, I saw how I stood in the balance…

The Perception of Perfection

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord...and the Lord makes us more and more like Him... 2 Cor. 3:18 When we lived in Germany, we sent our family home a bunch of candy called Kinder Eggs. Chocolate…