Category: Encouragement

  • Broken Heart – it’s hard being a parent

    As I put my oldest daughter to bed last night, I see tears pooling in her eyes.  “Jazzy, what is it?”  My heart breaks as she asks me to pray for a friend for her. A real friend that will not bully over her, but be there for her. And then the kicker, “one that…

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  • Timeless

    So lately I’ve been watching this new show on NBC called Timeless. It’s a very intriguing show to me about this terrorist who steals a time machine to go back and change history.  It got me thinking: if I could go back in time, just within my own history, would there be anything that I…

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  • Open your mouth

    I came across this devotion and wanted to share it with you and pray it gives you encouragement. I know that I go through seasons of negativity and worrying for the outcome. Not sure what’s going to happe. And why God isn’t intervening like I think he should. Especially when I watch the news or…

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  • two cents…

    two cents…

    I like how Facebook puts up the memories on your page to remind you of past pictures or instances you shared. This was one of mine that is a great reminder and I had to share it again! About a year ago, I was having a rough day. Trying hard to get the house clean…

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  • Seeking perfection

    Saturday morning I meet with some wonderful women and this morning we shared on something I think many many women and even men struggle with.  Being perfect.  Our society pushes on us hard on how we should look and how we should act making us feel like we should be striving for perfection and then…

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  • Encourage one another! 

    It’s so easy to get discouraged when things aren’t working threat I expect them to or in the time I want them to.  Even as a woman of faith, it’s a struggle reminding myself that God knows better than I do (what a concept, huh? Lol)  So I can across this devotional (wish I could…

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  • Just Be YOU!!

    Just Be YOU!!

    Why do we spend so much valuable time comparing ourselves to others?  I’ve been seeing a lot of posts through Facebook lately by Lisa Bevere on her new novel “Without Rival” talking about comparison and how we need to be who God has called us to be.  This got me thinking about how often we…

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  • Someone slow this train down!!

    Someone slow this train down!!

    My two older girls started school today. It seems that life doesn’t seem to move quite as fast until events like birthdays and the start of school come. Then you look back and go “What?!? How did we get here already?” This hit me more when my oldest, Jzzmyne, who is starting 5th grade, barely…

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  • Removing the Mask

    Removing the Mask

    A few years ago I went to a women’s conference doing a message called Unmasked. It was beautiful – which is funny because that was in fact the name of the conference. Beautiful. Simply put, it was about masks we wear. Things we do that hide who we truly are. Not being as real and…

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  • Going beyond every sunset…

    Going beyond every sunset…

    I have gotten several comments about how the main character, Travis, in my novel Beyond Every Sunset didn’t know which way was up half the time. The guy had so many things thrown at him that he couldn’t think of what to do. But isn’t that just like life?  Life throws us curveballs. We think…

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