An Invitation to Reclaim Your Hope — May 13, 2012, was the first Mother’s Day after my mother’s death. I vividly remember the pain and disbelief of that day. ⠀ ⠀ Dropped into a deep dark black hole, I was angry, sad, and lonely, and it felt like there was no one to empathize with how I felt. ⠀ ⠀ As…

Why Worry Is Too Costly To Continue — Worry is the Chief thief of our hope! It is relentless. Like a stalker, it lies in wait, anticipating the next moment you will dare to start taking intentional action steps to move forward into your calling. …

The Power of Cultivating the Practice of Faithfulness — Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin. — Zachariah 4:10 The trap is to make you think you need hundreds or thousands of people to validate what God has given you BEFORE you trust what He told you to do. Right now…

The Benefit of Turning Bitterness to Celebration — I have yet to meet a person who enjoys waiting. And quite frankly, it’s not my favorite pastime either. But, compound the disdain for waiting with a culture obsessed with instant gratification, and the result may feel like pure torture. Yet, God is not torturing us in our waiting seasons…

How I am Allowing Courage Through Sudden Loss — I am choosing to be a rebel by choosing not to concede my high expectations for this year. Those words sounded so good a little more than a week ago when I wrote them. The thought came from an entry in my journal where I had deliberately set my intentions…

About the Beauty of Receiving Grace and Being Redeemed — My greatest fear was that I would approach God’s Holy Throne and He would say, “Depart,” on account of my D I R T Y — H A N D S. After all, the Psalmist declares that only the one with clean hands & a pure heart will enter in. …

An Invitation To Allow Courage — Like many of you reading this, I have been thinking a lot about what 2022 will hold. With an unrelenting pandemic raging and uncertainty breathing down my neck, I am choosing to be a rebel by refusing to concede my high expectations for this year. See, I allowed things that…

AFFIRM THIS, I am not my goals. My value is not a summation of the things that I can do. My accomplishments do not validate my worth. While my goals are important, I will no longer suppress my appreciation for myself, waiting until I achieve them. …

And other Answered Questions About Me — I am not a fan of “About Me” posts. Well, let me clarify, I enjoy reading them, but I never know where to start when writing them. Self-introductions are tricky in that way because it’s difficult to measure where the highlights or points of interest are in your own life…