Sometimes in our lives, while we are standing, a storm will rip through and knock us down to our knees. Often during these times, we want to plead to God to help us, to change the situation, to take it off our hands. Very recently, in my own life, things have seemed, more than ever, that the ground beneath me was shaking. Just when I thought I had a stable ground everything began to shake around me. Tonight I heard the phrase, when we make plans God laughs. I am beginning to understand how true this is.

     All in twenty four hours everything seemed to crash into a wall. Feelings of dread, anxiety, and uncertainty swept over me and through me. I constantly felt a cold wave within my chest as ... Read more »

So often in our lives we become discouraged. Life drags us down. People drag us down. We drag ourselves down. But you know what, God never does. I know many struggle with the idea, that God places hardships in our lives (and He does). But God will NEVER do anything without a PLAN and a PURPOSE! And if He starts something He will finish it to the end. 

Philippians 1:06 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns."

I write this with a heavy heart for those who are in pain and grieving. My home church family has lost someone who impacted our hearts. I feel for the family and for the friends of Isaiah. I feel that the only thing I can do and that he would want is to reach out to those with comfort.  So I will begin with this scripture from Jeremiah 17:7-8

"But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

Isaiah was very young and yet he did something that many question in their lives. He ... Read more »

My vacation with my family was wonderful. I had a lot of great things that happened over the vacation and I had precious friends venture out to meet up with me. Through it, a lot of things happened. I was looking really forward to coming home for multiple reasons and one of them being the fact that I could reconnect which the hometown I grew up as a child. It helped inspire me with the story. And speaking of my writing, I have continued and the pace is much faster now. 

Also speaking of my writing, there was a time when I decided to give all of it to God during the trip. I have a special connection to the story of Jericho and the seven walk. I did a seven walk when I first dated my to be husband. I did a seven walk my junior year of college with God because I wanted to learn more. My husband and I have grown a lot together and I believe the seven walk, which means we walked around the ... Read more »

God never ceases to amaze me. My scripture last week that I relied on a lot was 2 Timothy 1:07 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." I've been experiencing anxiety and uncertainty. Jesus spoke of our anxiety and our worries. He told us that we shouldn't boost of tomorrow because we don't know what can happen today. And it's a great example, of worry and being anxious about things in the future. 

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Every time I have tried to explain this concept it always gets twisted and complicated. There are a lot of factors as to why I want to write the series. Writing, especially when you start out, is not a favored "job" among many. I've experienced a lot of different opinions and thoughts on my choosing to write. I do not always speak the best when talking to people face to face. And I can always explain myself better in writing. So let me take the time to finally fully explain myself. 

I had an early blog about my writing explaining some of the symbolism and I will lightly touch on that now but will not be as extensive because it's not needed here.

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I feel each week has a different theme in which I should write the blog about. I do not however, as you can see, write every week. But this blog is later than when I had expected to write. The Lord continues to show me that His goal will always make light even when it takes time. So let me share with you some of these things. 

Last week, I was talking with God and I felt very uncertain with my emotions. I made the statement to Him that whether I have a paid job to help others or not I know that He has blessed me to help others. Just the very next day, I had someone who I hardly knew reach out to me to talk. I felt that He was answering me that He will be the One to provide. And just like He always has, He continues to show me that. 

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So I have been thinking and debating about this topic just not with the blog post. It's definitely up on my rant topics so here we go! Deep friendship. What does it mean to me? Why should others try to invest in it? Why do people most likely do not invest in it? All of this and more of course is my opinion. So if you share another view or perspective that is completely okay because everyone is different. 

I've noticed, especially within the last few years, that my view on friendship seems to differ a lot when it comes to other people. Here are some categories I've come up with on different friendships I've had in the past and in present. Now these friendship categories are not focusing on one person, I've had these experiences (some have been observed) multiple times and thus they have mad ... Read more »

We have all heard it either from ourselves or someone else. "I can't believe so and so did this! It makes me angry they did this! It's so wrong!" Switch it to a perspective of a believer, "So and so is (sinning fill in the blank)! It's so wrong! If they don't change their ways they are going to..." Okay, so you get the picture.

Now, I can't stop every single person, believer or not, to lighten up on their perspective. But, as a believer myself, there has been a few ideas this past week on what my next blog ... Read more »

As some of you are aware I am currently working on test runs (backstories in particular and finding individual's voices) on my characters before starting to write my actual book series. The duration of the test runs has been in no way, shape or form anything of what I've expected.

When I wrote my first one, it was about the character Krystal. Her test run was three pages long. I wrote it in June of last year (2013) and I wrote it within a day (excusing continuing edits I added later on). Melissa's test run began in about August. I had just started the second page of hers when I realized I would have to expand on my explanation of the place I was describing. 

Krystal's test run ... Read more »