Grace, Love & Kindness + Life.

We all live this life of a 'coin toss' so to speak... Food. Will I eat right today, or not? Donuts... or eggs. Pizza.... or chicken. Hamburger.... or Turkey burger with whole wheat. My personal weakness? Ice Cream & Chips. yes maybe at the same time ... I LOVE ice cream & I love chips. Preferably Rocky Road & BBQ lays chips ( in case you are looking for a birthday gift- and not baked chips... I want the real grease deal .) Friends, I call this my inner fat girl. Which USED to be the outer appearance too. Now she's hidden. It's a daily struggle isn't it? I know I'm not alone in this, so I felt the need to write to reach a larger audience. Comments are made often about the way I eat, and how I exercise, and how I'm doing this or that, and that they cannot do what I do. And I felt a very strong conviction with this. So I prayed. And decided this is what I needed to share. We all start somewhere with this coin toss of what to ea

Grateful. Be grateful for the storms in your life. It reminds you just how strong you are. That statement, is very easy to type, easy to say and THINK. But it tends to be difficult to put into motion, especially in the midst of a storm. Daniel's grandpa says this "God will either calm your storm, or calm you through the storm". Oh how true is that! Searching for that strength is hard though isn't it? Where do you find your strength? Where do you find your hope? I met with our associate pastor this morning, God bless him for hearing my ear full too.. But he read a passage to me that has made me think all day long- In the book of Matthew- Jesus walks on water. First there is a storm, while Jesus sleeps, and everyone else is freaking out. Jesus wakes and snaps, and the storm is gone ( I'm completely modernizing this, please don't patronize me ). The others in the boat see a man walking on the water, and they think it's a ghost. Jesus literally

Have you ever asked God- maybe even begged for Him to lead you some where & maybe show you what you should be doing with/in your life? No? Just me huh.... I know I'm not alone in that so if I reach one person through this, job well done. Recently (this week) I sulked to my knees hidden away in a quiet place ( where I really should be more often ) And I begged God as I cried tears of pity for myself because I felt like nothing was going right. Feeling so confidant in things prior, and now just feeling bogged down where life kept hitting me in the face. I begged for God to show me. "Am I not doing what I'm called to for?" He answered me. Yes, friends and foes the Holy spirit will talk to you if you LISTEN! Slow down in your world- pause & breathe & just listen. Yesterday (2 days after my "pity party" to God) I asked my mentor for prayer. For our business, my marriage & our struggle. Before hearing back from her, I received a call fr

What an absolute GREAT day today has been. Even with the rain fall. Not that I dislike rain, because I love the rain. But I know there are many folks who make their living working outdoors, or contribute to their families income by doing so, that aren't fans of it. With this rain that moved in I was able to capture God's beauty at it's finest. And it was gorgeous. You have to be up some kind of early to be blessed to see it, and no lense can really see the true beauty of it. But it's there.   Do you embrace things like that? All around you? I have always been that way, but more so within the past 2 years. Everywhere you look there is God's beauty. The green grass, the flowers blooming. It's the river through a park with a simple duck swimming. View it differently tomorrow and feel the decompression your body, mind and soul will have. I'm grateful God "shows off". I pray he continues to do so. Today I was blessed to have lunch with