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My Life

As I sit here and go through old pictures of me as a child up until today, I look back at my life and see all the amazing times that I had. All the blessings and the experiences that God has allowed me to be involved in has brought great awe to me through it…

For the love of Money

Growing up I was really into this group called Bone Thugs N Harmony. They were the pioneers of tongue twisting rap, where they would flow out super quick rhymes and make it sound really easy and smooth. It was actually pretty impressive! One year they came out with a song called “For the Love of…

A girl name ENTITLED!

I ran into a girl named Entitled yesterday. She had a very interesting story. From a young age she had been born into a family that gave her everything that she wanted. “No” was not in her vocabulary because the parents felt that if they said “no”, it would take away her happiness. As she…

ONE YEAR OLDER

My birthday was yesterday and I realized that I am one year older. Funny how that works! Each year God takes you through a journey that will grow you, teach you and allow you to gain more wisdom. The older you are, the more life experience you have, and that can either be good or…

He was lonely!

His head was down texting away with not having a clue what was going on around him. When he was done with that text he would immediately check his Facebook to see if anybody had sent him a message. Nothing! So he looked up for a little bit and then immediately started to look at…

Are you a Victim or Victor?

I don’t know if you have ever experienced the messiness of life, but it can be tough sometimes to want to continue to keep moving forward. I want to ask you, what do you do when you face trials? When you lose your job? When your boyfriend or girlfriend leaves you? When you feel like…

New Zealand 2017 (UPDATE)

In 2014 I gave up my entire life and jumped on a plane not knowing where God would take me. All I know is that God said “GO”. What would that look like? How would life look when all your comfort is taken away and all I could do was to trust that God would…

You Are Worth It!

Living in the shadows of somebody who never sees you as being good enough really can take a toll on how you live your life. It can be manageable at first but then it gets harder to put up with. Before you know it, you are down, emotionally drained and want to give up on…

WHY ME?

The older I get the more I realize how hard this life can be. Things don’t always go according to plan and when things are really good, somebody is always there to stomp on your parade. Sometimes we even encounter things in life that can be a huge blow to us, like death or disease;…

Anything Beyond is a Blessing.

What if you could change your entire perspective on life and everything around you started to take a different shape in how you saw things? What if you started to look at the things you have, and those items became enough? Over the last couple years God has really been doing that in my life. …