…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 […]

In 1700, English pranksters popularized April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes. Though it is a holiday that has been celebrated by different cultures for centuries, the exact origin is a mystery. Some say it dates back to 1582, when the Julian calendar was switched to the Gregorian calendar, and as people were slower to […]

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 […]

Did you know that if you are born again, you DO have joy? Galatians 5 tells us the list of the fruit of the spirit. Notice there it says the “Fruit of the spirit is love…” Then it goes on to list the others. All the other fruit come out of love. I once studied […]

  “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” ‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭15:58‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ In other words, DON’T GIVE UP! DON’T QUIT.  We have a policy at our house and it is this: Cooley’s aren’t quitters! There is […]

“You know that moment when you are so scared, you laugh?”  said someone to me recently.    Honestly, I wasn’t sure I did. But then after thinking about it, I think what she was saying was that sometimes emotions get so high, you’re not sure if you should scream, laugh, or cry.     She […]

~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 […]

You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Put on that happy face when really, inside you were dying. They say “Don’t wear a mask.” But then they also say “Fake it til ya make it.” Which one is right? Well, of course there are times when we are at work and we have to just buck […]