Your past doesn’t define you. It refines you… if you let it. The past few months I keep being reminded of where I come from, the seasons I’ve walked through, the stories I’ve lived, the testimonies I have and the mighty God I serve. I’m a master at making excuses about sharing my stories because..…
“Bubblous? Bubblous”, as she’s looking at me with her big blue eyes, tucking on my shirt, pointing to the TV.. “Bubblous, Momma, Bubblous Puppies, Momma.” Well, that was a first. Never before has she ever asked to watch a specific TV show. But it was obvious that she was determined to watch Bubble Guppies. The…
Everything is calm and quiet. As I am laying there looking at her tiny little face, feeling every breath she takes on my chest, being completely in awe of her beauty and perfection, I reflect on the past 24 hours. In the background I can hear the faint but beautiful sound of this song “Forever…
The church bell rings. It is six o’clock in the morning. With each step the soles of her stilettos make a new print into the fresh powdered snow that had just fallen overnight. The sun is slowly peaking over the snow-covered mountains on the horizon. The trees look like crystal masterpieces as the rays are…
Over the past several days or should I say weeks I have found myself encounter the difficulty of making animal sounds. As I am trying to teach my 10-month old the names and sounds of farm animals I wonder who is more amused by it, she or I. Whenever it comes to the goat I…
Finally, peace! As I plop down on the couch, exhausted, I catch myself smiling at how God communicates to me. I have been chasing my, today, 10-month old daughter around the house, digging potting soil out of her mouth and from underneath her fingernails, closing cabinets behind her, and picking kitty hair out from between…
All of a sudden, woken by a whimper and slight commotion, she’s up. She looks at the clock – 2am, realizing she had only gotten 50 minutes of sleep since her head had last hit the pillow. She grabs the baby and stumbles into the nursery to change the baby and nurse her, desperately…
“Let’s check if we can already hear something…Here is the heartbeat!” Wow! Oh how we had longed to hear those exact words “Here is the heartbeat!”. The past year has been a big roller coaster that started when we first decided it’s time to start a family and found out we were pregnant in July of…
I’ve always felt an urgency to do something with my life; an urgency to move forward in life; an urgency to change paths when something didn’t pan out the way I wanted it to. But the thing that puzzles me is that I’ve focused more on the every day life than on practicing what I…
It’s 11:43pm on Thursday night, February 16th and I finally worked up enough ‘guts’ to write down the events of August 10, 2009, the most horrific day of my life. Until today I got sick just by the thought of it. But somehow I managed writing one and a half pages. It is tough, tougher…
