You read it right😳 …unhappy. This is actually a real key to being happy anyway.  Do you think I have this cheesy grin on my face 24/7? Umm, ask my family. I am human. Of course not. No one laughs all the time or is skipping on the clouds all the time. If they try […]

What holds us back? What quiets our wild? Why don’t we just go with it and enjoy life more?  responsibility   image exhaustion maturity timidity   fill in the blank “This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it,” is a verse that brings me so much […]

“He made me so mad!”   “These kids are driving me crazy.”  “I just can’t take it anymore!”  We’ve all said these things, but think about it. These phrases and others like them take the power to be happy out of your hands and puts it in someone else’s. Girls, let’s decide today on THIS […]

Are there ever times for you, or is it just me, when you don’t feel strong enough to endure a certain situation, season of life, or even crisis? Of course there are! We are in this together. If you are breathing, you know what I’m talking about. On the other hand, if you are breathing, […]

 “The LORD your God will then make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and He will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests, for the LORD will again delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors.”  Deuteronomy 30:9   Today’s blog is […]

This blog is dedicated to all moms everywhere, whether you have children, have pets who are like your children, or serve in some other nurturing role. This Mother’s Day, I want to invite you to remember to care for yourself as well. I remember my first Mother’s Day without my mom. I decided that instead […]

Hmmm, come to think of it…I really wish happy thoughts flooded my mind as free flowing as they seem to do for many people with whom I am close. My husband is one of these naturally “happy people,” as are a couple of my closest friends. By the way, I think God sort of set […]

You know the phrase and the desire, an almost desperate yearning to be “happy go lucky”. What does this even mean? To me, it is a wish to be lucky so much that every thing is basically a fairy tale. We yearn for utopia. Entire cities have been built trying to attain it. Fairhope, AL […]

“Hoppy Easter!”  my silly husband keeps saying.    I’d say that describes Easter quite well. Jesus hopped right up out of that grave and defeated hell, sickness and poverty! He hopped right over every obstacle we will ever face so that now by using His name we can overcome, no matter what we come up […]

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5:25‬ ‭AMP‬‬ Remember being a little girl on the playground at school plucking petals from flowers in hopes of finding out if he loved you or not? I remember little crushes in the 3rd and 4th grade and wondering […]