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The 7 Year Itch

My friend and I were recently talking about marriage and all the things it teaches you and the hardships that you go through. A good marriage does not come without hard times, it’s through those hard times where you find out how much your love can really grow. Can you come out of the hard times stronger together or stronger apart? I fully believe that marriage makes you a better person. It challenges you to grow as a person all the time. You are going to have disagreements with each other, but it’s how you choose to face them whether your marriage grows or becomes stagnant. We were married at the very young age of 19.. yes I know crazy! lol. Our relationship before kids was incredible, we had our hiccups but we had so much fun; we were literally the expression of young, dumb and in love. I think when everyone gets married you think that it won’t happen to you or that you will be better than that. We won’t ever fight like that, we will never go to bed angry or I will never yell at my spouse or…

Its Your Story, Own It.

“Some of us cannot receive what God is doing in our lives because we are too married to our  expectations of what we thought God was going to do.”- Not a Hostage: Life Church Podcast This struck a cord with me yesterday as I listened to this podcast because I have been a hostage to my own expectations more than I would like to admit. How often do we let our expectations control our joy? How many times have you been in difficult circumstances and you pray that they will change? How many times have you felt the need to be liked, the need to be skinnier, the need to be a better mom, wife or friend? How many times have you looked at what your expectations of motherhood would be like and thought, “Where did I go wrong?” lol. When instead you can look in the mirror and realize that you are already enough for the only one who matters. You are made perfectly in His image not anyone else’s on this earth, and you will never be able to fill those shoes, so stop trying. Something that was hard for me was…