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GOD IS FOR ME!

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I started this post without a title. The real reason is because I have no clue what the entire post will be about. I just know that I needed to write. I often think about how I use to journal as a child. My journaling never had any structure to it, more like thoughts, desires, prayers and dreams released on paper. It just felt so freeing in moments where I think I needed to escape from everything that was happening around me.  Normally, I would be sleep, but I have taken on another type of pattern so that I could get mid-evening rest and then finish some ideas that I needed to complete. So here I am at 12 AM on February 4, 2026: typing!  If I could be truthful, this season of my life is CRAZY! I mean uncertain, certainty. I know it doesn't make any sense at all, but to me it does. There is an uncertain way about how things are going when it comes to what I am seeing, but for God, it's totally intentional and certain. The hopeful thing right now that I can rest in is that GOD I...
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Testimony: Where I Came From

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I use to go to church every time the doors were open. I sat in a building, a box, doing routine. When the music cranked up I did too. I ran with the best of them. The best singers, musicians, shouters, high energy-octane praisers, the whole time living a life that was leading me straight to hell. I was worn out, fake, lukewarm, swaying side to side, acting like one thing but living the other.
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The Pursuit to Please

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God's ways surely are not our ways. He shows us in unimaginable ways ourselves and sets up experiences, tests, and trials to bring us to a lesson we need to learn. He will use people we know, we don't know, unexpected encounters, failures, celebrations, relationships failed and succeeded to show us what he desires for us to learn. This year has been a year of all that for me. And within these last few months every prayer that I have prayed to understand things, God has answered and given the the opportunity to learn what He wanted me to learn and also what I desired to learn. I was willing. I didn't always get it the first time He showed it to me, so He brought it to my attention in a new way.
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Life as a Letter of Recommendation

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DOES YOUR (Life) EPISTLE (Letter of Recommendation) HIGHLY RECOMMEND? Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:2-4 I have been praying for a bible teaching, Christ centered local church to attend. I began to read this morning and the word illuminated my heart. Paul begins in this scripture passage with these words, "You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. (NKJV) also translated like this (NLT), "The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our[a] hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you. Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone,...
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Who Do You Trust? Are You For Sure?

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I work part-time at a local funeral home in my community where I serve as a media & design developer. This is the same funeral home that my family used during the passing of my dear grandmother. This week alone I created three memorial tributes for families that lost loved ones; one was the grandmother of one our of family's closest friends and the other was a cousin of our family. But this morning something happened that I didn't expect. I received a phone call that a very special cousin of mine had passed early this morning. My grandmother's death was difficult for me. Not because I was caught off guard by her passing, but because she was my best friend and one of the closest people to my heart. She knew my struggles, she knew my pain, but most importantly above all else, she celebrated my accomplishments. She was the Titus 2 woman in my life that the scripture talks about: {Titus 2:3-5} "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holine...
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Living by The Spirit

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Last year I dealt with a situation in my life that I had to deal with a consequence of my sin. Let's be very clear, the bible says, "All have sinned, and fallen short of the glory of God." So yes, I fell subject to a weight in my life that I hadn't take off yet. I began to cry out to God because I knew that it was my bad decisions that led me to this place. I was saved and suppose to be living a life that represented Christ, but it was one thing that I had taken off. During that time, I had slowed down reading the word and praying. I think it was because I had allowed things that were evil, or maybe a better word would be carnal, to enter my life. Before, when use to read the word of God, conviction would fall and I would feel so bad about the things that I was doing that when the world talked about "sins to avoid" and "commands to obey", I was looking for ways to put those things into action because I truly had a desire to live in the light of C...
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Our Family Command Center

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Over at Hello Mornings Blog last week, I entered into a "PLAN Mini Challenge for an entire week.  The challenge was really simple. Our first simple planning tip was to write down 3 top things that were a priority for that day on a 3 x 5 index card and go do them!  Simple, right? Of course it was! The next day we were challenged to do the same thing but this time we were to add a time next to each item to tell what time of day we would accomplished that item. Simple, right? Of course it was! Well, I didn't really get through all three of the second day.  I only completed two items on my list. So here comes the downward spike... the next few days became so overwhelming that I never made it to complete any of the three items on my list! BOMB SHELL! It was time for me to evaluate the problem. We all are suppose to leave room for error and things that occur that we don't have any control over, but I just felt like it was far greater than that in my life. It wa...
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