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Want to See My Recent Travels and Some Vintage MM Videos?

Over the past two weeks, my husband and I traveled to see several family members in Tennessee and North Carolina. My husband’s parents live in a cabin my father-in-law built at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Dandridge, Tennessee. A very scenic spot to enjoy some R&R. We also visited with our youngest son…
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How to Rely on God in Troubles Like King David Did

Knowing how to rely on God can be a rather elusive issue, not to mention being hard to know how to do. So, as promised today, I will continue to unpack in my “Surrender Series” the final step in the Heart Healing Prayer method, “RELY.” As in Rely on God! One of the best…
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How 5 Unfair Tasks Can Make Marriage Stronger

Sometimes we bristle at a task because it’s “unfair,” especially when it comes to our marriages. Oh sure, most of us accept this reality in the realm of parenting or even in our jobs. But when it comes to marriage, we’ve somehow bought the lie that there should never be anything “unfair” about it. I…
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How Praying Scripture Guides You to God’s Best Plan

Several years ago, I allowed two of my sons (about 13 and 10 at the time) to walk home from an event at church without looking at a map or formulating a plan. They wanted to leave early from a picnic that was being held on our church grounds and thought that they could easily…
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6 Reasons Why It Helps to Examine Your Heart

Are you that person who avoids letting a doctor examine you? Maybe it’s just that you don’t like getting on that dreaded scale! Perhaps you fear that your doctor will diagnose a problem that you’d rather remain in denial about. Maybe the pandemic has you feeling a bit skittish about entering a doctor’s office—a potential…
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How to Get Results by Praying Through Scripture with Journaling

Sometimes we try to do too much before or instead of praying through a problem. As you might imagine, that typically makes the problem much worse! 😉 However, most of us don’t really take either of these tacks. Most of us do too much, while ALSO praying about it. Then when we grow tired and…
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How Praying in a Certain Way Can Bring You Perspective

Have you faced a situation that was so dire that you found yourself saying, “All we can do is pray”? And as you’re saying those words, you might not even believe that prayer is the only thing you can do. As humans, we so often don’t. When the pain is fiercest, you and I want…
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How Surrender Unlocks the Door in Your Life and Marriage

God has been taking me on a journey that’s involved more unpacking than packing. That doesn’t mean I haven’t packed my actual bags and traveled on vacation this summer, because I have! 😉 In fact, I just got back from visiting my family and friends in parts of Tennessee and North Carolina. During those times,…
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How My Father Issues Impacted My Marriage

I didn’t have much of a relationship with my father growing up. He was like a stranger to me in many ways because he was a workaholic pastor who wasn’t home much. When he was, he didn’t know how to reach out or connect with me. When I got married, I brought both a fear of connection…
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6 Great Ways Prayer Can Improve Your Marriage

I’m always looking for great ways to improve my marriage. It kind of comes with the territory of being a marriage blogger and life-coach. But I also do this because I simply want to grow closer to my man! Can you relate? About ten years ago, my husband was game to try something I wanted…


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