The Blog
supporting your beautiful, meaningful life
The Mourning After: How Do You Return to Life After Loss?
I woke up this morning and didn't know what to do. One month ago, I woke up and went to work. That weekend I drove up to visit my parents. It was then that I realized just how sick my mom was. She had been diagnosed with cancer in late February, but still looked good...
read moreGaining Perspective
Late last year a friend asked me to help her with a project for a class she was taking. She was learning to be a Life Coach and needed a guinea pig to practice on. I agreed thinking that I was doing her a favor, but in reality, God used her in my life in a tremendous...
read moreYou Are What You Think: Four Steps to Fight Negativity
Confession: There are times when I allow the Adversary to play in the sandbox of my mind. I let him pat and poke and run his fingers through my thoughts until he has built himself a nice little sand castle…complete with turrets and a moat and those cute little flags...
read moreMoving Forward With God – A Study on Isaiah 30:1-26
Isaiah 30 gives us a vivid picture of exactly what can go wrong when we leave God out of our plans. As you read the passage, keep in mind that Isaiah was a prophet. He is warning the people of Israel about an upcoming threat of an invading army. Also, he is...
read moreFor the Days When Your Heart is Homesick
I have chosen to live in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's where I sleep and work and go to church, but some days my heart is elsewhere. Today, as with many of my fellow Americans, my heart has been in New York City, remembering the fallen, and the brave. Much of the...
read moreIt Takes a Tribe, Savvy?
Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl is one of my all-time favorite movies, for several reasons. It's the best packing/cleaning movie of all time because of... The music. But then there's... The scenery, The sarcasm, THE Johnny Depp, And last but not...
read moreWhen I See the Moon
When I see the moon, I remember that I am small and God is vast. From ages past, His Word brought forth the unimaginable beauty of the universe, its glories teasing us with sprays of stars and globes of light, breathtaking in the raging fire of one and cold emptiness...
read moreSurprising Insights from Oatmeal
Instant oatmeal is a wonder of modern technology. Just add water, microwave, and breakfast is served. I never really considered this breakfast staple in any other fashion until I recently started opting for more whole food options rather than their processed...
read moreFighting My Inner Ostrich
I have often joked about being incapable of feeling, and I've even been called an ice queen on more than one occasion. But the truth is more complicated than that. The truth is, I am at the opposite side of the emotional spectrum with those who identify as HSP's...
read moreThe Comedian Who Made Me Cry
You know that girl that is always two (or five) years behind the trend? She excitedly tells you about this amazing group she just heard and you're not sure if you should let her enjoy her discovery or tell her that the group's third album just went platinum and ask...
read more#FatGirlProblems
Yesterday I watched a video of a commercial in which the two entrance doors of a building were labeled "beautiful" and "average." It records how the women felt after choosing one label over another. As soon as I saw the purpose of the doors I thought, "there should be...
read moreWhen You Want to Change the World, But You Can’t Get Out of Bed
My alarm is blaring and I begin the day annoyed. The noise is offensive and so is the command to get out of bed. The rebel inside me rises and the knowledge of what is right fights with that primal defiance that absolutely does not care and does not want to oblige....
read more