Inspiration Play List

June 20, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

I am a total music lover. I am totally one of those weird people that acts like my life is a movie with a soundtrack as I walk around in the grocery store or to class. I’ll turn on my music and bop along as I move through my day-to-day life. That said, I ran […]

Till Your Ground

March 31, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I spent a lot of yesterday in prayer. I regularly, most of the time, drive in silence. My commutes alone have become a great place fo me to be alone with my thoughts and with God, that and the shower. Yesterday I really felt as though I needed that time to be with God. Somethings […]

Lessons from Lionesses: Hold ‘em, Fold ‘em, and Slay

March 17, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Masai Mara, Kenya Leave it to me to be on safari and have a whole deep moment. As I was observing three lionesses hunt a warthog (which they call a Pumba in Kenya and I lived), a few things struck me. Struck me in a way that I literally had my wig snatched. So of […]

Self Sunday: Easing Back In

January 8, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

Inspiration: “You have to be gentle with yourself.” ~ My colleagues It is past midnight and I am having one of those moments where I have hit a productivity groove. It is officially Monday morning and I am just now getting around to writing a self care lesson for this week, again. Normally this would […]

7 Things 2017 Taught Me

January 2, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

**I know I’m a couple days late, but we’re here and we’re back! I have never been more ready for a year to be over. I thought 2016 was hellish and I was ready for 2017 but this year came in and turned my life upside down. 2017 can pack it up and be gone. […]

Self Sunday: Respites and Rest Space

December 11, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

Inspiration: Matthew 11:28-30 KJV: “28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my […]

Self Sunday: Letting Go

December 5, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

Inspiration: Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. ~Walter […]

Self Sunday: Capturing Every Thought

November 20, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

“The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” ~ The Buddha I know how horrible the mind can be because I suffer from anxiety and depression. It can push you over the edge into the abyss where you really cannot see things for what they are. How you think about yourself, and the world […]

Self Sunday: The Mind of Manifesting

November 12, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” ~Matthew 18:18 “By thinking those [negative] thoughts you emitted that frequency, and they became the pictures of your life” ~ The Secret to Money app “Manifest” is a big pop […]

Self Sunday: It is Ok to Step Back

November 5, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Quote: “Be kind to yourself.” Today started like many Sundays. I woke up and did my morning devotion ritual. After kind of messing around, doing some pleasure reading I started to get ready for church. But I had this nagging feeling that maybe I should stay home. I went back and forth about what I […]