I fell in love with a boy who took me to church.

The end happened in my hand raised and began again with my face down kneeling and weeping.

I fell in love with a boy who needed saving, but didn’t know he was saving me from myself.

He took me to church and Jesus found me - pulling secrets from places I thought no one could see.

I fell in love with a boy who took me to church

and in losing him

I lost the parts of me

that were never meant to last.

I fell in love with a boy, but what saved m...

I bought sunflower seeds for 74 cents two months ago

They came with easy no-kill-anyone-can-do-this directions

firmly telling me I had a limited amount of time to plant the seeds

how deep the hole in the soil needed to be 

how often to water 

and when I should expect them to bloom 

75-90 days

was all it would take

except they sat on my kitchen counter for 2 months

which set me back 60 days

adding unnecessary delay to the beauty I initially invested in 

when I finally planted them o...

I am not an "eventually" kind of woman. I am the kind of woman you scoop up and claim and embrace before someone else will. I am not

an "eventually" kind of woman. I am the kind of woman you hold on to because I fly high and have places to go and dreams to make happen. I am the kind of woman who will change the world one person at a time. I am not

an "eventually" kind of woman.

I am the kind of woman who stares fear in the eyes, stands tall and breathes brave. I do not falter.

I do not wait....

What if you turned all your worrying, wandering, wondering What Ifs into What Ifs that actually freed you to create your world where your worries didn’t win and you did?  

When I worry,

And I won’t lie 

I do

I picture my grandma holding me in her old wooden rocking chair singing Kumbaya.  

I am 8 years old laying limp in her lap with my head on her chest with my arms and legs dangling like a rag doll across her body. 

She rocks me back and forth singing this soft gentle...