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  • You’re Not a Failure

    Have you ever felt like a failure? You work so hard only to watch things collapse before your eyes. You wonder what went wrong? How could it have turned out so badly? Perhaps you tell yourself, “it’s all my fault”, or “if I were different I would have been successful.” Feeling like a failure is…

  • The Importance of Family

    There is something about family that has always felt bigger than words can explain. It is a bond filled with wonder, unexpected moments of magic, and connections that sometimes seem to reach beyond what we can see or understand. Children experience this wonder through the awe of discovering the world for the first time. Parents…

  • Preparing for a Hurricane

    As Hurricane Isaias prepares to approach our front door to say, “Hello”, I thought it would be an appropriate time to talk about hurricane preparedness. Hurricanes are classified from Category 1 to Category 5, with Category 5 being the strongest. Living here along the Gulf Shores of Alabama, I have weathered Category 1, 2, and…

  • Your Chapter in The Story

    Each one of us was born into a story already underway.   Before you took your first breath, there were people who had lived, struggled, loved, sacrificed, made mistakes, and made choices that would eventually lead to the chapter named after you. Your chapter is part of a much larger book. Somewhere between the beginning…

  • Things My Grandparents Taught Me

    We don’t always realize what we’re teaching the next generation by the way we choose to live.  Our choices often reach much farther than we realize.  Sometimes, the consequences of our choices don’t fall upon us at all.  Instead, they can be carried by the generations that follow. When you hear the word Grandma or…

  • The Fairy Tale Deception

    With the creation of television and the rise of new forms of entertainment, children were introduced to stories in ways previous generations had never experienced. Then arrived Walt Disney and with him the modern day fairy tale, full of Happily Ever After endings. As the popularity of these stories and movies grew, beside them grew…

  • Standing on The Truth

    When I was younger, I never imagined how relevant the words of Isaiah 5:20 would become in my lifetime—or how important they would be for yours. We live in a world now, where the boundaries between right and wrong are increasingly blurred – sometimes intentionally distorted. Less and less people have the ability to recognize…

  • You are Worth It!

    There have been many times in my life when I have asked the question,“Am I worth it?” Or, probably more often… “What’s the point of my life?” Take a look at this. These are three generations of your ancestors—my grandparents and great-grandparents. They lived through times I can hardly imagine. Some of them had terribly…

  • Living with Grace and Forbearance

    Your second birthday is somewhere around this date, and I’m sorry I don’t know which day it is. It’s hard to put into words what it feels like to realize that two whole years have passed without being part of your life. Two years of birthdays, little milestones, new discoveries, laughter, cuddles, and all the…

  • A Long Time Ago in the Magical Land of Yesterday

    A long time ago, in a magical land called Yesterday, there lived a little girl called Grandma. I grew up in a time of scarcity compared to today’s standards. Stores were small, (very few knew what a Walmart was), groceries were basic, and entertainment was whatever you could find, throw, roll, spit, or smash. Wadding…