My husband is a firefighter and due to a recent storm, that hit our area, he was at the fire station for an extended period of time. During his time away, I was thanked for being a “first responder’s wife”……one of the many hats I wear.  I’m a mother, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a niece, a friend, a singer, and a Physical Therapist just to name a few.  That’s a lot to keep up with! There are days that I feel like an acrobat, trying to keep fragile plates spinning on tiny little sticks, running back and forth wildly to make adjustments, not wanting […]

  I remember as a younger Christian always wanting to jump 10 steps ahead.  I always wanted things “NOW”, and didn’t always understand when it didn’t work that way.  In all honesty…my heart and intent was mostly good, as I wanted good and godly things for my life.  I was like a young flower whose bud had not opened, and I was trying to prematurely bloom, peeling back the petals. I will never forget when God started showing me how to relax, seeking Him and His path, but letting Him do all of the revealing of His plan. Consider the flowers & fruit bearing plants.  They don’t strive to produce […]

Have you ever faced something that seemed like a mountain before you?  As you stood at the bottom, or the beginning of a task, it seemed absolutely and completely overwhelming, and possibly impossible.  There is not a person on the face of this earth that hasn’t found themselves at this very place at some point in their lives.  There have been seasons that I’ve been through where it seemed like a battle I faced daily! It is at these crossroads in life, however, that we find out what we are truly capable of.  Where we find the end of our own strength and capabilities, and we […]