To the Pharmacy Techs Who Whispered: I wish you knew. I wish you could step into this body for a day—to feel the tremors that come when your heart forgets how to beat right, the pain that splinters through joints that can’t hold you up, the exhaustion that no amount of sleep can fix. I…
A calling stirs within us, a divine invitation from the Creator to embrace our unique purpose. Life’s chaos may drown out this whisper, filling us with doubt and the weight of expectations. Embracing our calling requires courage and faith, confronting fears, and acting despite uncertainty. Trusting in God’s plan, we must lean into this journey, supported by community, to find true fulfillment. Heather urges us to hold onto our divine spark for a life of joy and purpose.
In an allegorical tale, an ancient silversmith reflects the refining power of love and perseverance. Transforming raw silver in the hottest flames, he teaches a woman that beauty and purity arise from fiery trials. The narrative parallels our own life’s refining challenges, urging us to trust in our Creator as the divine silversmith, embracing hardships to ultimately emerge, purified and radiant, through divine love and grace.
Discover 11 powerful ways to remind yourself to have hope even during tough times. From embracing growth opportunities to believing in miracles, these tips will help you stay resilient and hopeful. Learn how to redefine your journey and find beauty in every struggle. Your best chapters are yet to come!
Here’s the greatest truth I can give you right now about loss, building, and beginning again: Sometimes a wall is a door.
We run headlong into a wall that is unforeseen and unforgiving. It hurts like hell. But if we will actually let ourselves hurt, feel it, experience the pain, experience the incapacitation, the injury, lay on the ground for a while, live in the loss instead of trying to spring into frantic action, and prove we’re fine . . .we just might find that the wall was actually a door after all.
‘𝙰𝚖 𝙸 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛? The woman in the mirror with sleep-deprived eyes and a hollow heart revealed the depth of my heartache. Have you been there? Have you walked through a season of betrayal, self-doubt, or unexpected circumstances? I’m currently walking through a season of supporting my husband who is now…
As my eyes fixed upon the shattered glass at my feet, frozen in the aftermath, I couldn’t fathom how the very glass I had unloaded gracefully from the dishwasher had chosen this dramatic path and sent my heart thundering. In the realm of this recovery journey, it’s akin to a delicate dance, a constant expectation,…
This season has proven more challenging than I could have imagined. To be completely honest, the last month went beyond physical exhaustion; my soul was weary, and the sense of falling short and shame weighed heavily on me. Years of seclusion, keeping a carefully crafted happy family image of life unraveled abruptly when my husband’s…
Strange things started happening when we moved to Minden. I would find myself in the middle of a light-hearted conversation with a woman I’d just met and she made a joke about how “put together” I seemed to be. And in fact, I seemed to have a picture-perfect family. This perception made her feel awful…
