It’s finally here! Our time to connect and grow through our book study, When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference. Grab your book, your Bible {if you have one}, your markers, and find a quiet corner where you can plug in with us online. I’m so […]
Finding the Courage to Change
Courage. Augustine of Hippo paints it like this, “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” I offer it like this. A gathering of women, in a safe place, cutting their place […]
When Story Heals the Wounded Places
How do you act, what do you say, when you feel nothing? When the hurts have ripped carmine-red, when the bad news and lame excuses echo empty, but the tears have dried? Whoever said words don’t hurt, they lied. There is a pain that worms its way into our hearts and relationships, our very lives, everything […]
When You Step Away From Your Feelings
Sometimes thoughts get jumbled in my mind and I say things that mean just the opposite of what I’m thinking. Does this ever happen to you? I’ll be doing a normal task and out of nowhere a thought or word spoken triggers a memory from long ago and all I can focus on is the […]
When A Woman Finds Her Voice Online Study {Free!}
There was a time I hurt so badly I was certain I’d never get over it, a time when I based reality on those feelings instead of Truth. It was those times I bought into the lie I should bury my hurts, refuse to dialogue the pain. There’s something that happens when silence hangs like shadows, when […]
A Better December
I have my Christmas tree up. I thought that might be mine and my grand-daughter Lacey Jane’s lil secret until I was blessed with a visit from Sarah Knepper and her beautiful family, but even then I swore Sarah to secrecy because I couldn’t fathom admitting that I had my Christmas tree up in October. […]
When We Dare to be Brave
Dear Silence–Breaker, You must know you pierce my heart, kindle my compassion, as I watch you battle for the courage to change, to heal. You’ve been trying to do this on your own, and there’s no need. I am here. I see how much you have suffered. I feel your fears. But you are […]
When You Reach a Crossroad
Broken dreams can create create deep crevices in our souls. As I sat in a crowded courtroom on a hot July afternoon I waited for my name to be called. I still couldn’t believe what was happening. “How did my life turn into a case of domestic abuse?” It was our seventh week with no […]
It’s A Party and You’re Invited {Because Your Story Matters!}
You may or may not have heard. We’re giving away some awesome stuff tonight and we want you there. This has been our official launch week for the release of When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference. God’s been doing some really cool things in the […]
When God {Really} Is Enough
“It’s time—hurry up! Be quiet. Stay out of sight, or else.” Carol’s mother forced her and her siblings beneath two single beds. It was stifling hot, humid, and hard to breathe—an awful place to be stuck on a sunny afternoon. Tucked in the attic, the children didn’t dare allow any sound to escape. That upper […]