Talking about my life and how God used every instance in my life to draw closer to Him
Man. This is difficult – not writing. I love writing. its a release. No. I’m talking about being a Christian. Its rough dude. I don’t know where people get the idea (I’m including myself in this group of people) that being a christian is all peachy creamy….stuff. I don’t get it. I don’t understand why […]
being married is a total exercise in trust. Not in your spouse, not in yourself, not in technology (for tracking of course) but in God. You have to sit there and trust that God knows whats best – not that God would protect your spouse from danger – i mean yeah you need to trust […]
I love that song “You are my vision”. Rend Collective does an awesome version of that song. Y’all need to check it out – just click the link for the YouTube thing. But I was just listening to this song Y’all know of this time of trial we are having. If you don’t? QUICK RECAP: […]
I’ve always been a fighter. Well at least in my head. Shoo….I’m a good fighter too yall. I’ve “won” some amazing fights. Okay enough goofing around. Yall know about my abuse so yall know – I am not good at confrontation. Oh so not at all. I even hide from it. Doesnt help when you […]
I think people like to use this term freely….I am free. Being free does not mean that we can do whatever we want – it means we don’t feel those compulsions. That we don’t feel those needs to do things to feel complete. Part of my testimony is that I …. well was a true […]
Hi. My name is Jessica and I have absolutely no patience. None. At all. I remember when I was a teen I prayed those fateful words: “Lord please teach me to be patient”. Here we are 20+ years later? I’m still learning. But its slowly starting to stick with me. Take my tumor situation – […]
Certain things don’t always come out the way you plan. Ha. Who am I kidding? Nothing comes out the way we planned does it? The point is? To keep trying to keep pushing right? That was a big lesson for me recently. I was about 340 lbs and not at all where I wanted to […]
Hands down the hardest thing for me to learn? To admit when I’m wrong. Oh that makes my skin boil every time I hafta do that. Especially to my kids. Me? Admitting when I’m wrong to my kids? Are you crazy? I remember the first time I had to admit my not perfect status: my […]
sometimes I like to be just still. No noise. No people…..just me. Not depression. Not anxiety. Well maybe anxiety. You see there are just sometimes when people are just too much for me. And I just hide. Or I lash out. Lashing out seems to be the go to emotion for me. Thats all I’ll […]
So im still recovering from surgery. Its a pain to sit here and not do anything. ugh. I hate this so much. For real. My family – God bless them – has been stepping up big time. Showing the glory of the Lord through it all but this is difficult. Sitting here and letting other […]
How Jesus Changed Me 