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  Please understand that things on this list are just as much for me as they are for anyone reading this. No finger pointing here… 10 Things that need to stay in 2016: Eating Excessive Amounts of Junk Food. Y’all…there is real food out there. And the real food is good. All the processed, sugary… Continue reading 10 Things That Need To Stay In 2016

Ten years ago this week my dad passed away from cancer. These years flew by to say the least. Thanksgiving was his favorite time of year…. I have learned so much from the entire process of having a parent die. The first years were honestly a blur for me. Watching my mom deal with some… Continue reading Ten Years…

Earlier this year in the spring my mom and I took a mini road trip up to a small town in Texas to see the “Texas Tulips.” Fields were full of families taking pictures and couples kissing for the camera and people picking flowers for their perfect tulip bouquet. We walked up and down the… Continue reading Lessons From A Flower

My church (don’t stop reading just because I mentioned church right off the bat please) just finished an awesome learning series called Love Your Neighbor. Yes, it sounds like the typical “do good to others” type message we hope to hear at church… but it was so much more and I wanted to express how… Continue reading Do You Love Your Neighbor?

I got the chance to go see the movie Gleason not too long ago. The film is about a former football player who gets diagnosed with ALS (Physicist Stephen Hawking also has this, what is referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease). The diagnosis comes just before his son is born so he records videos to… Continue reading Perseverance…And Kind of a Movie Review

Call me crazy but I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes with to the idea of good intentions and helping others. I tend to believe that people in general set out to do good to others, to make a difference in someone else’s life, to leave a mark. I… Continue reading Do What You Can -Where You Are – With What You Have

I’m prepping for our next Ladies Night event at church and the topic of the evening is DECISION MAKING. So, this subject has pressing on me lately and I have really started to take every decision I make more seriously. Take some time and just think about how many decisions you have to make in… Continue reading Decisions, Decisions.

I love it when people ask me what I do for a living because it gives me a perfect opportunity to tell them about my church and that I have my dream job (I’m the Operations Director at Revive Church). And almost instantly after I tell them what I do, their reaction is usually something… Continue reading When the going gets tough.

I heard a radio interview a few days ago with legendary drummer Carl Palmer. I listed to him candidly talk about all the different shows he’s played and how he got started playing and it was really entertaining. One of the things that really caught my attention is that he said that even at the… Continue reading Practice

This past week has been one for the history books for sure. 2 young men were killed by police officers in different cities which sparked protests (peaceful and not) all over the United States. It hit close to home because the peaceful protest in Dallas, TX – minutes away from my city – will never… Continue reading What a Week…