Feeling Beautiful

For most of the years before getting married, I struggled with feeling beautiful.  I had come to a place of accepting that this body, this face, this skin tone was given to me by God and I accepted it, but when I looked in the mirror and compared myself with other women, I failed to…

Raising Godly Children

In these years of me being a mom, I cannot help but reflect on how my parents raised me.  I don't think that I understood their process back then.  Sometimes it got on my nerves.  My brother and I many times would sit in our rooms fussing about how "too much" they were.  It seemed…

The Compassion of Jesus

  Again I appeal to the church.  When we share our experiences with racism I sometimes wonder if the silence is also because of not knowing how to respond?  Maybe you think "Well I'm not racist...I didn't do that...What am I supposed to say or do?" etc.  But the scripture that comes to mind is…