Happy Monday! When you feel like you can’t get out of bed… When you don’t know where your next mortgage payment is coming from…When you failed royally and feel like it’s over educationally for you…When the pain is unbearable because of divorce, an affair, loss of a lovedone, betrayal from a BFF, or losing your […]

Happy Monday! When I think of crazy faith, I think of… You know what CRAZY FAITH is? It is faith the size of a mustard seed that we can decide to yield to and get crazy enough to believe ANYWAY no matter what. We crazily believe that the Word of God is true and that […]

In a world that constantly tells us who to be, how to look, and how to get a guy, it’s easy to lose sight of what truly matters—your own worth and the confidence that comes from within. In our previous blog, Balancing Happiness: Spirit, Soul, and Body, we touched on this, but today, let’s dive […]

Ingredients of Grace: GratitudeUnderstandingAttitude of HumilityCommitment to forgivenessExcessive amounts of Love Here’s what I keep finding over and over when talking with people, working with people, and living with people: Grace, Grace, and more GRACE is needed for them as they deal with me and for me as I deal with them. If I don’t […]

When God wants to bless you, He puts a person  in your life.  When the enemy wants to trip you up and get you off your course, he puts a person in your life.  Your life matters and so choose your close circle wisely.  Pray this right now over yourself and those you love: Lord, connect […]

What you tolerate you endorse… Get used to answering questions with questions like, “Is that honoring up, down and all around?” And if it is not, then statements, like, “There is no provision for that here.” When someone in your family or organization does or says something that goes cross grain with your values or […]

Now what? Okay, so if our dreams died on Friday and Saturday was the in-between to not give up when it looks like we are oveeerrrr…done for, and Sunday is a COUNTRY SONG IN REVERSE where we get our dog back, our truck back and our heartbreaks are mended, what happens on Monday? Breakfast with […]

There are all kinds of -ologies. Psychology, biology, spiritology and then there’s geneology, methodology, immunology, pathology (what my mom did. Fun fact: She was so brilliant that she clept her way through college and ended up having the job of a Pathologist with a Phd without actually having those initials behind her name.) That all […]

“Stick and stay. It’s bound to pay.” said a pastor we served under years ago. That phrase has come in handy so many times in our lives. We raised our boys saying it this way, “Cooleys don’t quit.” And I get it. I can already hear some of you thinking of the books, social media […]

or safe or fill in the blank …..and it’s perfectly ok! What?! Did you read that right? Yes, you did! It’s true! This is why we need a Saviour who is! And when we feel not enough, unsafe, or like life just isnt’ quite what we had imagined, if we turn to The Word like […]