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.
,

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.

An Unexpected Calling: Ugg Lee Dolls

{ In preparation for our Faith Over Fear #justdoitafraid Workshop, we are featuring people who have stepped out even through they were afraid, and God did something AMAZING! So, it's with so much joy I get to introduce my long-time friend!…

My Revelation In The Chaos

“You have too many irons in the fire, babe” was the matter-of-fact comment from my husband as I sat on my bedroom floor crying, with random papers, multiple lists, journals, and books circling me like covered wagons. I felt as if everything…

Just Do It Afraid

It was one of the scariest days of my life. The phone rang and the doctor said the result from my husband’s biopsy was throat cancer. I remember the blood rushing from my head, and everything seemed to echo from that moment on. I can recall…

I Have MS (Martha Syndrome)

It doesn't get any easier! Twenty-one years and three months since I recommitted my life to Christ, asked Him to never allow me to wander again, and it's still a challenge to make spending time with Him a priority! I look at myself in the mirror…

My Insides and Their Outsides

Every blog I read, speaker I watch, or ministry I research I have one constant nagging voice in my head... They're so much better and you're just not good enough.  Its a nagging, painful, and uninvited voice which seems to have it's own access…

FAITH: Lord, Where Else Would I Go...

Marching into 2013, I have never been so happy to say farewell to a year! It feels like our family has been in one storm after another for the past 5 years, but it felt like it all became an intense series of explosion in 2012! I had never…

He Sees What You Can't

You want me to do what... I can't! That was my reply, along with a very loud laugh, when the woman asked me to co-lead a study with her. I'd never done anything like that before! I had barely read the Bible! I had nothing to offer her. But, she…

The Bigger The Dreams The Greater Our God

Better than I had anticipated... That's exactly what I felt when 8 women showed up at my house for a never-been-done focus group dinner party! I sensed the Lord prompting me to step out and host this dinner, but before I did I imagine 100 reasons…

Fill Me Up, Lord!

  You know you’ve gone off the deep end when you hear yourself talking and even YOU think you’re a jerk! I had just come off of a very busy weekend, and due to poor planning on my part, I didn’t allow myself any down time to recoup.…

Waiting Can Be Bitter Or Sweet

The oranges at the grocery store don't even taste like an orange at all! However, I would have never known that had I not had the privilege of tasting a fully ripe orange straight off the tree! When we moved into our house we inherited a 30-year-old…