Inspirational

"I think my stepdaughter might have assumed I changed my shirt because I’m old (in her eyes), and old moms don’t wear 'sexy' stuff. Or maybe it was because I was married to her dad and didn’t need to look sexy anymore. And while it was true that I respected her father, that was just the tip of the iceberg."

"I’m either an hour into the elliptical or I’m halfway through a bag of Doritos."

You pay to shower at local truck stops and eat whatever can be cooked in a gas station microwave. Someone sees you and your daughter living like this and calls CPS; guess what happens next. They remove your child from your care. As if this isn’t devastating enough, you lose your job too, because “an employee losing their child reflects poorly on this company.”

"Which of these patterns of thought are you most prone to engage? What are the mental phrases for which you need to most guard against?"

This world is not the end and I want my kids to know that life is temporary. Eternity is forever.

So many of us desire to be used by God, but then we say “well, except for that, Lord.”

“It’s not an abortion bill. It’s a murder bill." These babies are born ALIVE.

Hair. It’s the one thing that we all have experience with: Too much of it, not enough of it, not doing what we want it to do. Great hair day, bad hair day, bed head, “throw it in a ponytail”, wear a hat, and coloring it. I have always been attached to the hair on my head.