Ever felt like you’ve been lost in the shuffle? Ever felt like all this work and faithfulness and development has been for …this? Ever wondered why can I not get a break? I was feeling like that one day and truly just discouraged about my dreams. I was thinking : Is this pie in the […]

~If You’re Happy and You (don’t) know it….clap your hands~   “Rejoice in the Lord always, and again, I say rejoice.” Phil. 4:4 You decide. It’s no one else’s obligation or privilege to get to decide for us to be happy or to make us happy. Stir up the gift of God in you. Sometimes […]

I could hardly wait to share this with you! It’s the final book cover for Love ANYWAY! Check it out on my social media today 💕📖🙌 @addiecooley & @happy_anyway if you missed the last email we sent you with it! Shout out to Harrison House & everyone who collaborated on the cover!!! All my friends […]

Every good mother loves nothing more than to see a smile on their kids’ faces. A fond memory I have of my youngest was face-timing with my then 14 year old who was with his Dad in India teaching in the school and at the conference. I could feel the warmth of his smile as […]

Are you afraid of what all is going on in our world these days? Are you shaken up by it all? Does it seem uncertain to take the next step? Honestly, it’s hard for a lot of us to even think about it. Some go to their war room and pray. I’m sure you have […]

I remember it like it was yesterday, though it’s been a few years now—the day I sent my eldest son on his way to begin his senior year. Having coffee in my favorite chair in the kitchen after doing what I had long anticipated, wondering how it would feel. It was all so surreal. I […]

So how do you get THAT happy? Furthermore, how can you LIVE that happy? Admit, this phrase makes us laugh because we all long to be happier than a bird with a French fry, don’t we?   I am living proof that it is possible. I’ve had a few sad moments when the struggle got […]

” …speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; ” (‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭19‬ NASB) This is so funny and sort of unbelievable. As a child, my favorite songs were called “It’s a Happy Day” and “Happy In The Lord”. Still to this day, […]

When I was a little girl, we had a pond behind our house. There was a picturesque meadow on the other side of that pond filled with beautiful flowering weeds each summer. There were those tiny purple flowering weeds, dandelions galore, and it seems like yellow, I recall, maybe a few daffodils here and there. […]

Do you remember the Juicy Juice commercial jingle: “The happy comes straight from the fruit”? As soon as I heard that, I immediately thought of John 15.    I actually spent much of one year about 15 years ago in that chapter of the Bible until it became a significant part of my spiritual DNA. […]