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. […]

Got just a FEW minutes for me to share something with you that is going to make you do a victory dance? “Victory dance?!” you may ask. “You have noooooo idea what I’m going through!” Well, live vicariously through me for just a moment while I rejoice with you of what all God did in […]

We have all heard this term before – “Happy Camper”. The definition of happy camper is actually stated as “a contented, satisfied, or uncomplaining person”; or, “a happy person”.    When I hear those words, Happy Camper, it takes me back to my childhood in the 70’s and teen years in the 80’s for some […]

It’s Happy Girl 19 week!!!  What will your Happy Girl Story be? This year, I am so honored to be able to have Lisa Young as the guest speaker, because she’s an integral part of my #HGStory. I went on a mission trip to Haiti with an organization called C3 Global that Lisa & her […]

~Happy Talk~ Are you a happy talker? Check out these verses to sort of check up from the neck up. Jot down or copy and paste the ones you might need to focus on. What if these verses described the way we talk day in and day out? How much happier would we be? How […]