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Need to Breathe concerts 8 years apart, a little grayer and a few more wrinkles! We enjoyed both venues and the time we were able to spend with each other. Over the past couple of years, I have been on a mission to create memories instead of acquiring things. Time has become a precious commodity →

As the year closes, it is time for reflection! 2023 brought many new things to my life. A new town, new job, and new church for my family! It has been my experience that with change – people either withdraw or thrive. Our new community (work and church) have embraced us with loving arms. I am enjoying a →

The past couple days I have struggled with my depression- it is triggered by great expectations of the days yet come and the reality that I am behind in preparations due to work commitments. My family is arriving today and I am feeling overwhelmed by the lack of things I have yet to accomplish. I don’t →

It has been an eventful past 5 years with Jesus. Jesus has reveal my heart’s bruises and scars through the Celebrate Recovery program.  My intention was to help my husband begin the ministry within our church.  Little did I know, Jesus would reveal the brokenness that I hid from myself and the world! I have →

A couple of years ago, I started to live the concept of “one word”.  I realize that change is possible, but focus is required.  The goal is to choose one word to be my focus for the next twelve months, and to help me keep my attention fixed on that specific word.  The word for →

The hustle and bustle of the Christmas season is upon us! It is not even the first of December and I have already rang the bell for the Salvation Army, been in a Christmas parade, decorated the house and tree, and wrote my Christmas letter.  With many more days and activities to come, I want →

It is a couple of days before  Thanksgiving and I sit here pondering the events of last couple of years…. Six years ago, my life was in complete shambles.  My marriage was a disaster and I was trying to hold on to whatever sanity I could muster.  A few weeks before Thanksgiving I had asked →

I have dropped off the pages these past couple weeks, but I did, however, complete “the 30 day praise challenge” by Becky Harling.  I recommend this daily devotional for anyone wanting to experience a closer walk with God through praise and worship. Over the past eighteen years, I have suffered depression.  Five years ago, the →

Day 8 of “the 30 day praise challenge” “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”  Jeremiah 31:3 Today’s challenge was praising God for His unwavering, everlasting love. My earthly father broke my heart when I was thirteen.  I will never forget the moment, he sat me and my →

Day 7 of “the 30 day praise challenge” “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”  Romans 1:20 Today’s challenge was a reminder that God created us for beauty.  One of the →