Live The Life God Created You For
What titles define you in this life? Who are you? How do YOU define YOU? STOP! Think about what words you might use to describe yourself if someone asked. Perhaps wife, mom, professional, daughter, etc. If a few answers have popped in your head, then you are ready to read on… When your environment
Do you like to have a plan of action? My brain is always thinking several steps ahead. I don’t really know how to relax well because my happy place is being productive. If I don’t have a plan or a direction, I get frustrated easily. I need purpose. This doesn’t always help me follow
There is much of my life that I didn’t have much, if any, control over preventing the trials that I ended up persevering through. Navigating my parents divorce as a child, ending up in a dysfunctional marriage with a husband with mental illness or caring for my mom’s affairs for years after she survived
I am so saddened when I watch other marriages around me failing or struggling. I am equally saddened to listen to single friends who can’t seem to find a partner that they could share their life with. It often leaves me feeling guilty that I happened to “fall into” a really great marriage or
I used to arrive in church after checking my toddlers in and if I arrived during the last worship song, I considered that getting to church “on time”. I was quite content missing the majority of worship. I can’t sing, so I felt like I was almost doing those around me a favor. I
For several years I was involved in a ministry called Celebrate Recovery where I worked on a lot of codependency issues I had collected over the years. Celebrate Recovery is an amazing ministry for anyone working through anything…so all of us. This was the first time in my life that I had ever been
The cold, hard truth is that my first marriage of 18 years evolved into me treating my husband like a kindergartner. Other people actually referred to him as my third child (we have two children together). I learned how to slice and dice his inadequacies with my razor sharp, sarcastic tongue. There were many
It’s never too late to change your legacy. The unhealthy environment you were brought up in or the one that has been the norm in your family doesn’t have to continue. You can be the beginning of your family looking different for you AND the next generation. God revealed this to me in a
