For all the times you needed support through some of life’s hardest challenges, but instead heard the words, “Did you pray about it?” Prayer is a powerful, powerful thing and I believe it is of utmost importance in every season of life, but I also believe in things like therapy and mental health awareness. What’s more, I believe these things compliment one another. I believe that God has physical, mental, emotional and relational wholeness for […]

Tomorrow we celebrate the coming of a new year.  Although we have all faced challenges this year, a new year carries the promise of hope.  A new year brims with wonder and expectation.  No matter where we find ourselves at the end of 2021, as long as there is breath in our lungs, we can know that there is more for us.  We can know that there is more potential to unlock.  There is more growth and healing to come.  The […]

Our imaginations are powerful.  I am constantly thinking.  I am a deep thinker and process internally, as well as verbally.  This is a strength.  When I speak, the messages I deliver come out of my processing.  The words I write and publish in my blog come from my deep thinking sessions.  However, this is also a weakness for me.  As someone who struggles with anxiety and overthinking, I can allow my thoughts to take me […]

I see the Lion of Judah calling His Brave One.  She may not see the brave in her, but He sees it.  She is worn and tired from the fight. She at times feels wounded, despised, damaged and broken. But I see her rising up from the ashes, as she hears the gentle whisper of The Lion calling her away.  Although she feels great fear, she chooses to go anyway. She chooses to leave the […]

Be cheerful with joyous celebration in every season of life.  Let joy overflow, for you are united with the Anointed One! (Phil. 4:4 TPT) Earlier this week, I was standing in my kitchen ready to make my way out the door.  I live at home with mom and dad, along with my 4 year old niece and her mother.  As I put my coat on, bracing myself for the unpleasant cold and the potential of […]

Be sweet. Be messy. Be celebratory. Be home. I clipped the words referenced above from a magazine and glued them to a vision board sometime a couple of months ago amidst the hustle bustle of the holiday season.  They echoed truth that God had already begun to whisper into the core of my being. I didn’t set resolutions for this year.  But I did walk out of 2019 with an idea of how I wanted […]

So the Word became human and made his home among us.  He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness.  And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son. *(John 1:14) All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through His prophet: “Look!  The virgin will conceive a child!  She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’” This […]

Song of Songs 1:5-6, 9-11 (TPT) The Shulamite  Jerusalem maidens, in this twilight darkness[j] I know I am so unworthy—so in need. The Shepherd-King Yet you are so lovely! The Shulamite I feel as dark and dry as the desert tents of the wandering nomads.[k] The Shepherd-King Yet you are so lovely— like the fine linen tapestry hanging in the Holy Place. The Shepherd-King My dearest one,[p] let me tell you how I see you— […]

Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing.  Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude.  Till him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make all the answers known to you through Jesus Christ.  So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, […]