My Therapy

Last week as I was doing my usual bi-weekly huge grocery haul, I first found out about a hurricane named Harvey coming to our area. I don't watch the news or much TV, and I hadn't heard anything on the radio about this potential hurricane. The next day I had to go buy water and found it to be quite a challenging task. Needless to say, I started to look up this potential hurricane, which was supposedly forecast to bring a lot of rain to our area. I was still a little unsure whether or not to believe the hype of the media. Friday morning I found myself going to the grocery store early in the morning to find some canned goods and lunch meats to help us survive a few days without electricity. Never did I imagine the devastation that I was about to experience alongside my wonderful family.  When we first moved into our home in 2014 it was mandatory to purchase flood insurance for our home. Though we lived near a creek, our house was built on a higher foundation so floodin...

Since I was a young girl in my teens, I remember clearly never wanting to get married. Marriage seemed like I would always need someone else's permission to do something and I didn't want anything to do with that! I even remember thinking that if I ever had any children that I would only have one, and even then it would probably be a baby that I would adopt. Ha! Since I'm married today, with four kids, you already know that that was obviously NOT God's plan for my life! After I got pregnant with my fourth child, about eight years ago, is when I really began to get serious about submitting to God's will. I wanted to begin to live out the life which He created me to live. Even then, however, it was very challenging for me. You see, my desire to do His will was genuine. Yet, I wasn't reading my bible at that time. I had already started attending conferences here and there and it all sounded good but I was at a stage in my Christian walk where I was still fil...

Lately, God has been showing me signs of where He wants to take me and my husband and our family in the future. He has shown me visions of things that are to come.  And in these visions He gives me hope for the future, just as He promises in Jeremiah 29:11. Despite this, I can truthfully say that this journey that I’m currently on, heading towards that future, is not always easy and can even be emotionally draining at times. This road to redemption and restoration has me really meditating on my life before Christ and even on some of my decisions and actions since accepting Christ into my heart. Because you see, I am not perfect. I have flaws and I have made poor decisions, even since I started my walk with the LORD. There have been times when I didn’t want to be humble and when I didn’t want to keep my mouth shut. There have been times where I have known what I was doing or saying was wrong; yet I didn’t stop myself from doing it or from saying it. I’m human. I’m flawed. I...