I was attempting to rest before the Lord and just “be” when I opened up my Bible and it fell right to the story of David and Goliath. I had just been praying and seeking God’s face for a specific area my husband and I have been praying. So, it occurred to me to read this passage and pray it through when the Power of this passage hit me in a way I had never seen before. I immediately reached for my pen and began to transcribe my heart.

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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
1 John 1:1-5

Life can be like a game of baseball. It looks like God is a baseball fan for it says so in His word…”in the

“The generous will prosper;
those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.”
Proverbs 11:25

Your doing a lot of good. You may not always be aware of how your life is positively impacting others, but believe that it is…and one day, God will bless you to see the fruit. Keep loving. Keep believing and keep receiving all God has for you. He’s got you! ~Nicole

I went to college right out of high school. I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Development (after changing my major from nutrition after I was already deep into this field of study). I have always had a deep fascination with human physiology and cognition. I love nutrition and how it affects our performance and behavior. I went to school with the goal of becoming a Marriage Family and Child Counselor (MFCC). I didn’t even make it through the first year of a rigorous graduate school program- not

The art of being a relational individual is learning to speak the language of others. I’m not talking about foreign language, though this may apply also. I’m talking about learning to see the perspective of others. Peoples history/background shapes their reality. When people have a vastly different background than you, they perceive and interpret encounters and situations differently than yourself. They may hear the exact same statement and their filter received and interprets it far differently than you do. So, even if you can’t relate to them, you can more

“The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.” Psalm 16:6

My Mother’s Mother will always remain one of my best and warmest childhood memories. I loved her and my Granddad very much. She passed when I was 18. She had emphysema-a disease caused by years of smoking that slowly destroys your lungs. So she was sick for some of my middle childhood years and all of my teen years and I watched her atrophy…slowly. She was a dinky woman to

“Listen to advice and accept discipline,
and at the end you will be counted among the wise.” Proverb

“Open the eyes of my heart Lord.”
To see, to hear, to learn and grow. There’s love in discipline.
Beautiful is a heart that accepts reproof. When we realize sometimes we struggle not because we are being punished, but rather we are being loved. There is beauty in forgiveness, humility, meekness, gentleness and all the fruit of the spirit. ~Nicole

“The humble He guides in justice, And the humble He teaches His way.” Psalm 25:9

Humility is such a difficult thing to speak about or write on, yet the Word of God clearly requires that we walk in it. The thing about humility is to be truly humble we must never truly know we are. For as soon as we dare believe we are humble…well, that wouldn’t be humble!

“Humility is so shy, as soon as you talk about it, it leaves.”
~Jimmy Pena

How do we teach humility, walk in humility and

“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.”
1 Peter 3:3-4

Do you not know how radiant you are? Do you not know that My Sparkle dances about your eyes? Have you not seen the Shine of My Glory upon the crown of your head? So Beautiful are you, My Beloved, that

Love is the Perfect Law of Liberty, but cannot always be done “hands free”. There are probably a million and one ways to love a person. We can practice the fruit of the Spirit (patience, kindness, etc.), we can perform acts of service (do something helpful or meaningful), we can give gifts, and human touch is another act of love. I don’t necessarily mean romantic touch, but that counts, too. Im taking about touch. There is something significant about the human ability to thrive through adequate amounts of touch-especially as