Just Me: The Inside Look

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.  The brave man is not who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." Nelson Mandela 2014 absolutely did not start out the way I hope/planned, but admittedly, I am beyond grateful it did.  I am sure if you enjoy reading this blog, then you do too...  Please don't take that as being cocky because it's truly not meant that way.   I am simply just saying that this blog probably wouldn't exist today had my world not flipped upside down. In John 10:10 it says: "The theif comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." If there was one verse I had to choose to sum up my life this year, John 10:10 would surely be it!  My life hit me like a ton of bricks last January, as many of you already know, but what the enemy always forgets to anticipate with me is how hard I come back swinging... It really i

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for a smile is the  beginning of love." Mother Teresa Love is a hard thing to grasp.  Sometimes it's hard for us to understand love because our normal of love wasn't that of someone else we may know.  It's hard to understand how someone can love you sometimes...or maybe even why. The definition of love is simple: Love~ An intense feeling of deep affection. A person or thing that one loves. Feel a deep romantic  or sexual attachment to (someone). GREAT!  I know what love is...It tells us how we feel when we love someone, but it doesn't tell us what to do when that someone hurts us. It doesn't tell us how to handle the heartache and pain.  It doesn't explain why some of us feel we aren't worthy to be loved. Growing up I knew what love was.  I would give my love freely, but in return  I would always be filled with disappointment and heartache.  I put too much expectation in