Equipping You to Live an Intentional Life With Grit & Grace
As I realized my blog would be live soon, doubt began to fill my mind. I began to doubt my abilities as a writer. I began to doubt that I would have anything of use or value to share. I began to doubt if creating this little place on the internet would ultimately be a …
Last weekend my cousin visited. He told us about his new apartment, where he lived by himself with no roommate. “I remember those days,” I said jokingly. Do you recall a time when you had fewer responsibilities? For me, it’s when I was single and dating, making more money than I ever had before, and …
I’ve been quiet lately. I’ve been filling my mixed media journal with paintings that have no words. I’ve been struggling to find ways to speak and pray about what is going through my mind. Right now, I’m broken. Before I launched Gritty Faith Magazine, one of the things that weighed on my mind was how …
A couple of days ago, I came across a post that said, “Infertility after kids – Just because someone is blessed to have one child doesn’t mean that secondary infertility is an easy pill to swallow.” That right there sunk into the bottom of my heart and stayed there. I have been dealing with this …
As a kid, my favorite Disney movie was Peter Pan. Something about the idea of never growing up, eschewing society’s predetermined course of your life, raising a giant middle finger to “the rules” and instead, swimming with mermaids and fighting pirates…it really ignited something deep inside me. The idea that, with just some faith and …
In February of 2016, I started to notice my weight gain and lethargy. I approached my doctor about it but he was not concerned and simply told me to eat well and workout, both of which I was already doing but I brushed this off as starting to lose my “good metabolism” at age 25. …
The quarantine gifted me the stillness I didn’t know our family needed and I will forever be grateful for the moment in time where life paused long enough for me to look around and see what needed to be reset.
Urban dictionary defines crunchy as a person who has adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. See also, Modified derivative of granola. I would have never referred to myself as a crunchy mom before today, but my post quarantine self can’t deny the similarities my life shares with the status quo crunchy gal. I …
Have you ever heard the song Hosana from Hillsong? There is a line in the song that says “break my heart for what breaks yours”. That one line has always held a special place in my heart but the older I get, the more convicted I become when I hear it. I realized this …
In order to tell our family’s story, I must start by telling you MY story and why I became a teacher. As the oldest child in a family with three younger sisters and the oldest of twenty grandchildren, it may seem only fitting that I would want to care for children; but this is not …
