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.

FAITH: How Do We Live In The Infinitely More

It only takes a few glorified moments on the evening news to see how unthinkably evil the world has become. The technology of today compared to life just 50 years ago seems unimaginable. And the inconceivable wealth of the western world has…

What Releases The Power Of God Inside Us?

Have you ever had a vision, and as quickly as it arrived it's gone, and it's only remnant is a dazed feeling mixed with limitless possibilities? It seems after such an unexpected moment the ears listen more intensely, the eyes scan anything…

PURPOSE: Identity Crisis

From the moment a doctor can lay eyes on us, we are identified, and from the second we are placed in our parents' arms, we are called by a name. As children, we look at others in an attempt to discover who we might become - perhaps a doctor,…

FAITH: Coming Out Of The Clouds...

The captain's voice spreads across the cabin, "Ladies and gentleman, we've been cleared for take off." It's my most favorite part of a plane ride! The anticipation of the trip, the journey ahead, the excitement of where we will land... it's…

The Gift Of Friendship

In just a couple days we will be unwrapping gifts, and in a few months most of them will lose our attention as their luster fades. Some gifts will be returned while others tossed in a closest. However, there is one gift that seems to hold…

SORROW: Is It Possible To Make Sense Of What Is Senseless?

Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 Why didn’t God do anything? Why those children? Why that town? Why that school? Why those families? If God is all-powerful, all knowing, and ever-present, then where was…

Heaven - No one is talking about it...

So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. 2 Corinthians 4:18 Heaven... whose talking about…

Season Of Solitude: Where's Remade?

 Photo Credit: LeonaDeLioncourt The price of salvation is a free gift, but it will cost you your life... When are you teaching again? ...Why are you not blogging as much? ...I miss your posts on Facebook. ...What's next for Remade? ...What…

Why I Run (LONG but I promise worth your time)

MISSING!     KIDNAPPED!     SOLD! A teen goes missing in the local area... A child is lost a few towns away... it's not connected to modern day slavery. No, modern day slavery is the problem over in other countries across the ocean. For…

PARENTING: From Fear To Faith

I've always had a problem with the public school system having our children more hours in a day than we did. I felt it was our responsibiltiy to shape and mold them into the adults they would one day become. Today our family embarks on a new…