I guess we are all being quite reflective now a days. Our baby boy, our smile, our laughter, our KEEPER just graduated high school. Things seem so surreal and I guess won’t really hit us until we drop him off to stay in the dorms come August. But for now, he is with us working …
Listen. I don’t have a big platform in which I can speak. I do not get involved in political issues nor try to argue with people about what I think, especially on social media of all places. I do however have this little blog in which I speak from my heart, share my experiences of …
Can’t go back to the beginning Can’t control what tomorrow will bringBut I know here in the middleIs a place where You promise to be“Here Again” Elevation Worship This song y’all. Doesn’t it just speak right to your heart and where this year has us all? Go listen to the whole song, plus all of …
When I look back I thank Him…when I look forward I trust Him. These are the words that hang on a sign in our house…the sweetest gift from dear friends, a parting gift as we left our “happy place” to step into this new season and journey of faith and trust. These words couldn’t be …
” I don’t know if this will make you feel better or not, but she listened to your victim’s statement in court and showed genuine remorse. I’ve seen a lot of these cases and she seems like one that will learn from this and turn her life around.” These are the words the district attorney …
Just when I thought I was over the hump, here I am again climbing back up through the painful, cold, dark path striving to get over it again. Just as you get comfortable with where you are and seemingly take that sigh of relief, that’s when you realize there is more work to be done. …
Wholeness. Wholeness. Wholeness. This is the word that the pastor spoke over me and Eric at church last Sunday. Altar calls during worship before the message are very rare, but today was different. Immediately when the pastor got up to pray over the congregation during worship, the Holy Spirit nudged me to come to the …
So just two weeks ago, we roped our amazing friend into taking photos of us for a Christmas card that we just sent out last week. On that card we officially shared the announcement of our big move with family and friends. Don’t be surprised if your card makes it after Christmas, and know we …
Proverbs 18:22 says, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the LORD.” I mean come on, where are all my ladies at that I know just like me, enjoy reading that verse! Let’s get real and admit that much of the time we have an easy time identifying all …
Set in stone. I chose this OPI color for my toes when I finally went for a pedicure to soothe my tired, working feet last weekend. I’m a sucker for the names of the polish and must admit, I make my selection based more on the name than the actual color. I made this choice …
Perhaps you have been perfectly positioned for such a time as this. Perhaps you have walked through something less than ideal just to end up equipped to be where you are for such a time as this. This was true for Queen Esther in the Bible. Esther, one of God’s chosen people, a Jew, had …
It has been a little over a week since Hurricane Michael ripped up through the panhandle. These past two weeks have really been such a fog. It’s hard to process what even happened. It’s hard to know what to feel. There are so many emotions flowing. As we entered our neighborhood from evacuating last Friday, …
I was so conflicted on what to write, what to share today. A day when less than 48 hours ago, a major hurricane ripped up through parts of the panhandle, just miles east of where we live. I feel like at such times, words are hard to formulate. It’s hard to know what to say …
In honor of our baby girl Kirie Jaelynn getting baptized today, I am piggy backing off some of the information I shared in last week’s blog post (“Train Up a Child”, go check it out if you haven’t yet-shameless plug haha). I want to talk about our little girl today and specifically how her coming …
Last week our family experienced our first high school event with our son Kieran. HOCO, the new trendy way to say Homecoming, just so happened to be an event that was “kind of a big deal”. I mean I don’t really remember even going to a homecoming event myself aside from maybe going to a …
Get your part right. This is the anthem I was taught growing up, by not only my parents, but also by sweet, Christian parents of friends who really followed the heart of God by pouring truth and love into the lives of the next generation. It takes a village y’all. This is an anthem I …
Perspective. Being so set in my ways, I’ll admit that it’s annoying when someone asks me to change my perspective. I’ll also admit that I never really saw changing my perspective as resulting in a feeling of gratitude and an overwhelming thanks, until I felt like God himself was asking me to change my perspective, …
I do not believe everything happens for a reason. I also do not believe in a God, a good father that causes bad things to happen to His children. I know things happen. I also know that many things in this life that we walk through are hard to understand, especially when things that we …
We are a society of stress, living in what seems to be the age of anxiety. I feel as if we are so quick to use stress and anxiety as a blanket description, sometimes even for a prescription, for our reactions and choices we ourselves refuse to take ownership of. I myself am certainly guilty. …
Last weekend was connect weekend at our church. It was the weekend that all the small groups were introduced for the fall semester and people were encouraged to join. My favorite phrase that our church uses in this encouragement process is that we are made to “do life in circles, not just in rows”. God …
“I’m fine, it’s fine, it’s all going to be fine.” Chances are if you have to start a sentence with this f word, or three, all floating around, it’s not really fine! This is the place that I’ve been in over the last few weeks, finding myself responding with just that as many people are …
I want to share my heart today and get back to the simple message of grace-the reason that I am where I am today, that I started this blog, and that keeps me pushing through. I have not mustered up my own girl power or strength to persevere through this journey I’ve been walking, I …
She had just lost her husband. With his line of work there wasn’t a retirement, inheritance, or really anything left behind to support their debt or her and her two sons. She was faced with losing everything and all she had was a small amount of olive oil. This is a story of trust, obedience, …
One year. While “time flies” this past year has seemed to drag on. A lot can happen in a year, a lot did happen in minutes to completely change our lives. It all happened so fast, yet the recovery has been so slow. Am I 100%? No. Am I still continuing to heal? Yes. Am …
My favorite coin phrase through my journey of healing and finding my new “normal” post car collision has been “its been a roller coaster.” Roller coaster of emotions, roller coaster of pain, roller coaster in and out of comfort. There have been times just when I had gotten comfortable with the way things were, that …
Stillness. Patience. Waiting. None of my strong suits. For some time I have been praying and believing for God to bring forth some of the desires of my heart. I’ve been praying to be able to use the gifts He’s given me in a place that was healthy, life giving, and most of all in …
I share an important notable part of our story with a small piece of my heart hurting as friends that have become family(framily) have left our area this week to move further south. Hurting, but fitting none the less, as I want to share about the importance of the community throughout our circumstances of the …
I touched on fear when I shared about the peace that transcended our circumstances during the car collision that had left us in a state of shock. While it seems like a natural, warranted reaction to certain circumstances, specifically for many of us it being a fear of the unknown, fear is a very tricky …
I shared previously, that it was after I knew my husband, and especially kids were okay in the car collision that I was able to swallow what had happened and be at peace with whatever was to come. I believe that many of you would be much the same, in first knowing your kids were …
I’m venturing off the beating path today from the order of our story to talk about love and marriage, all in honor of the wedding anniversary to my only one. Today marks seven years that I married Eric, the one who my soul loves, in an intimate, private (being just the two of us and …
So, I said after sharing the facts and account of our traumatic car wreck, to be encouraged because God showed up and just as promised, I’m here to tell you when we first saw Him. You may have read my last post and seriously asked how? How can one find the joy of the Lord …
The Wreck This is my account of the traumatic experience of being struck in a head-on collision by a drunk driver that literally wrecked our lives. As I share in this post mostly just the facts, be encouraged that while this is the account of our real and raw experience, Jesus and His grace was …
Irreversible is defined as not able to be undone, not reversible. If you are anything like me, I’m certain there are many things in life, especially some of those experiences that are completely out of your control, that you would like to reverse. Maybe your words, actions, accidents, or troubles don’t always result in what’d …
I am so excited to share my very first blog post, launching next Friday, May 18. Look for hints on social media as to what I’ll be sharing about. It will be my “hallmark” post sharing more about the meaning behind the name of Yraversible Grace and the post from which my stories will all …