It’s the same old script playing over and over in my head, like the ticker scrolling across the nightly news reel. At least now, I’ve learned to recognize it, and I know where it originates. But I long for the day when the all-too-familiar pain that accompanies the lie dissipates as quickly as it enters my heart. The memory erupted last week, spilling over all ugly and oozing the evidence of a soul infection I thought no longer existed. The kind that spits out so fast, you have to catch your breath and take a minute to process “why this, and why now?” You see, for the past 6 months, I’ve been in the fight of my life. A spiritual fight to silence the lies once and for all. Have you ever been in this place, where life bears down so heavy that you can't hear the truth for Continue Reading
You’re Already Amazing
If you’ve been a part of the Fresh Market Friday Link-up community for any amount of time, you know I’m passionate about living with intention and building a legacy that inspires and brings hope. I just think it makes life so much more worthwhile and opens us up to amazing blessings we might not experience apart from both. That’s why I want to share something with you that I wholeheartedly believe in and have witnessed the fruit of in my own life for many years. Let me start by going back in time a few years when I was a new wife, a new mom and a pastor’s wife…. All that sounds wonderful doesn’t it? Well, it was, but it was also the beginning of the most difficult journey of my entire life. One that would last many years. It was the time I came face to face with some very deep Continue Reading