LIVING TO LEARN

A fast scroll and quick glance at this square and all you see is a happy-in-love couple. (Keep reading). What you don’t see: fear, shame,...

Like waves, our feelings can often overwhelm us. They can come so quickly, so unexpectedly that we are washed under in seconds flat-...

“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” (Romans 12:12 NIV). When chaos comes, when it surrounds and consumes us,...

I’ve never been one to set resolutions for the New Year or pick a word for the year. But, I do always find myself feeling energized,...

Advent. The Season of Waiting. The Season of HOPE, Peace, Joy, and Love. *** In recent years, I have not been attracted to the idea of...

Love doesn’t always look pretty, romantic, or endearing. *** Love is often difficult, uncomfortable, and messy. *** When we enforce...

I am 99.9% certain that I am not the only Ted Lasso lover in this community. I quoted him last week on an IGTV where I continued to speak...

Matthew 7:7-11 (NIV) “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who...

Proverbs 24:3-4- By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with...

My Mandevilla plant is not thriving like the one I had last summer. I’ve watered more, I’ve watered less, I’ve dead-headed, pruned,...

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out...

I am proud to say that I have been patiently waiting for these beauties to burst. Why am I proud? Well, first off, I’m not a patient...

Today is week 4 of my Mental Health Monday posts. *** The survey I did in February (all female participants) showed that 66.7% of those...

Today is week 3 of my Mental Health Monday posts. *** Struggles with mental illness can often feel like swimming in the ocean, making no...

Today is week 2 of my Mental Health Monday posts *** The second highest rated area from the survey I did in February was “Permission to...

In late February, I surveyed a small sample of females all of whom I consider to be doing the good, hard work of living life to the...

Idols consume us. They eat away our time, our thoughts, our hearts, our imaginations. Very stealthily, idols tempt us, attract us, draw...

We are slowly but steadily walking away from a year of loss, devastation, lament, and fear of the unknown. And now, we are embracing a...

Desk /Chair Yoga- Postures for Relieving Work Related Stress Unfortunate as it may be, we all have times where we experience work related...

I have been fortunate enough in this life to have been gifted an abundance of love. I have loved and been loved so hard and so deeply by...