Conquer Your Mountains
I wasn’t prepared to become a mother when my son was born just six short months ago. But I didn’t know it at the time. After all, I had the crib and clothes and boxes and boxes of diapers. I had taken birthing classes and child development courses and had done my share of babysitting….
It seems very appropriate that I learned one of life’s greatest lessons while sitting in a classroom. I was in college at the time, meeting with a bunch of other twenty-something-year-old kids for our church group. There was no church building available, so we met in a classroom at the law school. Being young, we…
I hope that you have never had to go through the pain of an abusive relationship. If you have, my heart goes out to you. Because healing after abuse is almost as hard as experiencing the abuse within the relationship itself. It’s a struggle, a battle to come out happy, healthy, and whole. The following is one…
The boy in this video proves that no matter where you are in life, no matter where you come from, you are not a victim of circumstance. It is sometimes easy to feel like a victim, to feel like you have no control over who you become, but you are always in control of YOU!…
Motherhood really is a tough job. One thing I think the makers of this video got wrong, however, is the compensation. Mother’s may not be compensated with cash, but what they are given in return for their efforts is so much more wonderful. Every day when I look down in my son’s eyes, I feel…
“I used to numb my feelings and hide; and now I feel my feelings, and I share.” -Glennon Doyle Melton Glennon Doyle Melton has a brutal history, but a beautiful life—a “brutiful” life, she calls it. Because life is not without it’s ups and downs. And each of us, like Glennon, longs to share our…
Happiness is the one thing we all want most in this life, and something I bet you are searching for it right now. If so, well…I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you’re never going to find happiness. The fact that you are even looking for happiness means that you don’t…
The following story was written by a dear friend of mine who wishes to remain anonymous. She suffers from Crohn’s disease, and fought a hard battle in high school. While the rest of us were worried about what we would wear to prom or who was dating whom, she was making visit after visit to…
She was beautiful–no, radiant. Glowing with warm and joyful energy. Long, blonde hair and blue eyes. Slender; dressed in a delicate white eyelet sundress that stopped tastefully just above the knee caps–which only drew more attention to the fact that her lower left leg was encased in a bulky black walking cast. She seemed indifferent to her…