Lord, bless it.

Most everyone has that one day you will never be able to forget.

No matter how much you try. Your old memories lead up to it and your new ones lead back to it. You relive the years, months, days, hours,...

Thank you, Blue.

It would be just a few years later that I’d unlock that door and open my heart to him.

It was now summer and my divorce was about to be final.

I had dropped one of my boys off at the church for junior camp and that’s when I was asked if I could help with VBS. I said yes. I was...

There was a freedom I experienced that first year of living in the country.

I had already lost so much so I had the mindset of what else do I have to lose? I bought the chickens. I planted the garden. I sat at my...

The first time CPS showed up at my doorstep…I was in shock.

Honestly if I hadn’t had the very best lawyer in town, I’m not sure that I would have won custody of my kids. I believe 100 percent God...

I had an unhealthy fear of losing one of my children.

So much so I became an over protective helicopter mom. I was always right there. Ready to catch them so they wouldn’t fall. Clearing the...

I began to doubt if I made the right decision in leaving my first husband.

I heard God say clear as day…”let go.” But I could also hear all the other voices around me. “He is repentant.” “He hasn’t cheated since...

I was raised Independent Fundamental Baptist.

I didn’t even know what that meant…just that it was our denomination. So when I left the church I grew up in, that’s what I googled to...

When I left the church I grew up in, I had no intention in returning.

But I did. I had a lot of church hurt. My uncle was no longer pastor and the church just wasn’t the same church I remember growing up in....

Growing up in church was a gift.

Church was all I knew. When I was in elementary school, my uncle started a church in his home. 1985…seems just like yesterday. Sitting...

As winter was coming to an end, I could hear God again.

Grow a garden. I had never grown a garden. Heck I couldn’t even keep a house plant alive. My grandparents had always had a garden on...

Winter came with surprises.

It was time to put the mower away. What now? Chickens. That’s what I heard. Buy chickens. If the Lord wanted me to get chickens, I was...

Never in a million years would I’ve imagined I’d move to the country.

But we did. We moved to my grandparents farm that my dad now owned to work on our marriage. I was just down the way from my dad so I...

I didn’t see the changing of seasons.

Five years had passed when I found out that my ex husband had reached back out to the teen in our church…who now was married herself. I...

I’ve always prayed.

As a teenager in my room. As a single in my apartment. As an employee in my office. As a wife and mother in my home. As a servant in my...