“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and moral excellence,
and [recognize and honor and] glorify your Father who is in heaven.” – Jesus (Matthew 5:16 AMP)
I so admire people who have always known exactly what they want to do with their lives. I entered college having no clue what I should study. I declared psychology as my major but it didn’t take long for me to realize that I did not like the field. But my developmental psychology class at …
When I was a teenager, I had subscriptions to magazines for teen girls. First it was Young Miss, then it was Teen and Seventeen, and in college, it was Sassy. As I entered my 20s and became a working adult, I went from teen magazines to magazines for women: Glamour, Mademoiselle, and eventually, Cosmopolitan. While …
I am more of a digital planner, mostly because it has been more convenient to use one of my devices for planning. The disadvantage is that my planning is spread across several apps. I use the Calendars app to plan my day; Google Docs to plan my goals for the month; take notes on my …
One of the benefits of being a Proverbs 31 Woman is that there is a man who is praying to God for you. Imagine being the answer to your future husband’s dreams. Imagine not having to do anything to find him because he is looking for you. The 22 verses of Proverbs 31:10-31 informs the …
One of the good things that came out of my job loss was starting my own business. It is something I might not have ever done otherwise. Even better was when I remembered that the Proverbs 31 Woman also had her own little business. (Proverbs 31:24). It is another of her attributes that I could …
Just this past week in the news, there was a story about community refrigerators. The concept is very simple: if you have food to donate, leave it in the community refrigerator, and if you need food, help yourself to it. I pray more of these pop up all over, so that even more people struggling …
That was the message given by one of the guest speakers at the Arise 2019 Women’s Conference: I am a model. A friend invited me to attend and her pastor, Jason Lozano, was giving the message. I was very interested to hear what he, a man, had to say to us women about how to …
