“Don’t be ‘angy’, Papa! I just a widdle boy.” Garrison Cooley (age 3) Those words ring in my head when we as Christians, friends, family, church family, work buddies get angry or irritated with each other and choose not to work things out between each other. Those words were spoken by Garrison when he didn’t […]

You want to be unapologetically you, be understood with total confidence about who you really are? Good. Bad. And ugly. How? Please tell me how? This was my question several years ago when I was trying to be ok in my own skin…..my own skin that was and still is wrapped around way too much […]

What’s the biggest gift you have ever been given? I was trying to think of the biggest gifts I have ever been given and some of my first thoughts were…. • My brand new red 1990 Cellica when I graduated High School. • My now three wedding rings. Who loses their wedding ring…twice?! This one […]

1- Don’t give up! 2- Don’t be impatient. 3- Be entwined with the Lord. 4- Be brave & courageous & never lose hope! 5- Yes keep on waiting for He will never disappoint you. Psalm 27:14 Oh how encouraging are notes from friends and I hope this one encourages you! Click The Full Post below to read my full note to you!

” …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. […]

 …over and over repeatedly!!! Been there? We all have. Sometimes it’s messy, so messy that you’re left sitting in a lemony disaster. Or at least it feels that way. But the good news is you can add a little sugar and what was meant to take you out and turn you sour ends up refreshing […]

If you follow me on social media you may have noticed me using this hashtag lately #happyontheoutside so I’ld like to explain what that’s all about…    When I was a little girl one of my favorite praise songs in Childrens’s Church went like this ~ Something on the inside working on the outside. Oh […]

The Harvard Grant Study was a 75 year long most elaborate study ever done that scientifically proved the secret to a happy life. After following hundreds of people through 75 years, the final analysis was this – The secret to happiness is love. Full stop.    There is is more detail of this in my […]

Before becoming happy anyway, that’s exactly what I was doing…giving on debt. It’s not enough to have old stale manna from heaven. Girls, I had some of the best old stale manna. I had heard some of the best teaching on the planet and had heard from God personally in some pretty awesome ways. But fresh […]