Wellness Tuesday: The Weight Loss Catch 22

As a teenager, I dealt with issues that resulted from PCOS {polycystic ovary syndrome}.  After gaining the extra poundage, these issues have only been magnetized. Having PCOS feels like a catch 22.   Why?  Well, losing weight is even hard because of PCOS, yet I know I have to get healthy. So what is PCOS?  PCOS is a problem that occurs […]

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Understanding My Self

I find personality types very interesting.  This is one of the few interest Mama and I have in common. Through my counseling and my own interest, which led to self-study, I began to learn more about the different personality types. This helped me to begin to understand my personality.  Through recognizing which personality features I possess, I was able to […]

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Song Story: Give Me That Old Time Religion

Have you ever felt unfulfilled in your life? That was the struggle with Charles Davis Tillman.  Born shortly after the end of the Civil War, to a Methodist Minister and his wife, he struggled to make his way in the world as a young adult.  After committing his life to Christ, he spent his life working for the Savior. One […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: The Different Faces of Rebekah

Isaac, son of Abraham, needed a wife but did not want to find one among the Canaanites, where they were living.  A servant was sent to find a wife.  When he arrived in Abraham’s homeland, the servant prayed for guidance.  Rebekah appeared before the man finished praying. She offered water to the servant and his camels.  Then they followed her […]

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Learning to Be Honest with Myself

To deal with my depression, I had to do the hard work to pull back the layers. A huge part of this included learning to be honest with myself. I had to be honest with myself about my actions, reasons and motivations. Through learning to be honest with myself I also had to see and acknowledge my selfish behaviors and […]

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Hymn Story: Onward Christian Soldiers

This popular hymn was written without the intention of ever being published. Written for the English holiday, Whitmonday in 1865.  Whitmonday is a day for festivals in Yorkshire. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould recalled, “one Whitmonday it was arranged that our school should join its forces with that of a neighboring village. I wanted the children to sing when marching from one […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: Leah, the UnLoved

We’ve been studying the women in Jesus genealogy.  There are three additional women that we know by name, although they are not listed by name in the genealogy listed in Matthew.  However, they each play an integral part in the story of God’s people.  We know not only their names, but their stories from the book of Genesis. These three women […]

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Wellness Tuesday: Is the Spirit Willing?

The other day I was reading a book and stopped when I came across a passage.  I had to go back and re-read that passage a second, third…and even fifth time. The passage said “sometimes the spirit is willing but the body isn’t.”   WOW!!! That really got my attention.  There are so many times when my spirit is willing to […]

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Doing the Hard work

Now the hard work began, I had to learn to be honest.  Both with myself and with others. I wanted healing to be instantaneous but it wasn’t.   Healing takes a lot of time and a lot of work. There were numerous layers that had to be pulled back. Often, I felt that I’d learned one lesson or worked through one […]

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Song story: I Believe in A Hill Called Mt. Calvary

Corrie Ten Boom had an amazing testimony for Christ.  However, her faith and story came from the horrors of life that took place in Nazi Germany during World War II.   Ten Boom was the only one of her family to survive the concentration camps. She later recalled a conversation she had with her father in which she could not imagine […]

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Lessons from the Women in Jesus Genealogy

We’ve studied the five women mentioned in Jesus genealogy in the book of Matthew.  However, we’ve learned that none of them were perfect and they all had choices to make. We don’t have to be perfect—none of these women were perfect. After all, we have an adulterer, harlot, and foreigner among the women in Jesus family history. Our consequences may […]

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Wellness Tuesday: A Wakeup Call

In my day job I work in a rehab center.  We have short term stays with people that have knee replacements, hip replacements and other health issues.  On top of these wonderful individuals I work with, I’ve had friends and family members that have struggled and dealt with health issues due to being overweight.   Watching the struggle these loved ones […]

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Pulling Back the Layers

I was hurting and in pain and wanted to disappear into the depth of depression and darkness that encompassed my heart. Yet, I had to move forward.  I could not stay in this holding spot forever. But how did I begin to heal? I wasn’t able to do it on my own.  I also knew that I did not want […]

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A Mother’s Day Poem

Mama, If I’ve not told you…. …thank you for giving me life …thank you for loving me {even when I don’t deserve it} …thank you for laughter …thank you for training me in the way I should go …thank you for teaching me right from wrong …thank you for making sure I saw ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ …thank you for […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: Tamar, the neglected

Judah, the son of Jacob, married and had three sons.  When his oldest son came of age, Judah found a wife for him.  Her name was Tamar.  Her husband, Er, was wicked and the Lord put him to death.  Then Onan married her, but he was also wicked and put to death.  Tamar was sent back to her father’s household.  […]

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Wellness Tuesday: When You Lose Momentum

  With the start of 2016, I made the goal to exercise at least fifteen minutes every day.  I was so proud of the progress I was making.  Until, at the end of January I had a bout of pneumonia.  For two weeks I struggled to just survive. Since, then I have struggled to return to my routine of working […]

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Getting Real with one self

After three years in an abusive relationship and twenty years of bad decisions, I’d come to the end of myself. I was broken and depressed. I was grieving over all that had happened.  I’d been wronged time and time again.  However, I began to realize that while I’d been wronged, I’d also done wrong.  I wasn’t perfect and made plenty […]

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Hymn Story: When We All Get to Heaven

This rousing hymn was written by Eliza E. Hewitt, while she was an invalid. She was born on June 28, 1851 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  After becoming a public school teacher, she received an injury that caused considerable health issues and spinal problems.  Hewitt became bed bound for a period of time.  During this time, she wrote many hymns that we […]

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