Misc.

Summer is winding down and fall is in the air.  That means we just have a few more months of 2024!  If you’re like me, you’re wondering how has this year has gone by so quickly? As we start to get back into our routines with school and work, I want to encourage you to […]

When I am about to embark on something new or momentous, I set out with great anticipation and excitement. Yet, I have found myself feeling like it has just been a fight to the finish line.  This summer, my family and I were able to enjoy a beautiful vacation. We were filled with excitement. The […]

Four years ago, in the height of Covid, masks and social distancing, my son left for college. We weren’t sure what the next four years would hold. He wasn’t sure either. Would he make friends? Good friends? I mean the right kind of friends? And in a world where everyone is either staring down at […]

I recently came across some thoughts from Pastor Craig Groeschel that made me stop mid scroll.  He wrote… “Someone needs to be reminded to be careful not to wish away the season you once prayed for.  You may be living in the middle of an answered prayer and not even realize it.  For me, it’s […]

Confession: I was a big fan of the show “Friends”. (Please don’t judge me.) If you are willing to admit that you were too, which “friend” did you relate to the most? If you have known me for 2 months or 2 decades, it probably didn’t take long to figure out that I am Monica. […]

When I was a newlywed, I quickly discovered how different my husband and I were about tackling household tasks. We each had our own style of folding laundry. We had different definitions of what tidy looks like. My thought was, “I’ll just do it all by myself!” However, the Lord humbled me and showed me […]

It’s easy to look at someone who is really good at what they do and think that they are just so gifted, or smart, just a natural at it.  While that can be true to a certain extent, I believe there is a larger portion of the population that excels in things not because of […]

This year has been a challenging journey for me. There have been unexpected detours that felt overwhelming and stressful. Truthfully, they left me feeling weary. Some days all I could see was everything that had gone differently than I imagined. Some days the temptation was to just camp out in the land of discouragement.  But […]

My sister and I made a few adjustments to our schedules, got the green light from our husbands and off we went. A four and a half hour road trip to Houston to encourage our friend, Shyni. Her father (I call him Uncle) had been in the hospital and our friend was going through a […]

As a child I hated hearing that word “obey”. When my parents used it, I felt like they were trying to hold something back from me and control me. It felt unfair. It felt like something I wanted to rebel from. But as I grew older, I saw that my parents were actually loving and […]