Happy New Year - 2020

Yes, we’re half way through the New Year and I’m just now saying something, lol. Don’t judge me. I’ve been extremely busy working on projects to help set myself up for a great 2020.

With that being said, I just wanted to drop a little bit of encouragement in your spirit.

The last 4 years have been extremely tough for me and in 2015 God told me that everything I was going through was just a test and that one day my test would become my testimony. So I believed that and then 2016 came, 2017, 2018 and NOTHING changed it all kept feeling like I was still being tested and I didn’t understand it. 2019 became the year of faith for me…I had to understand what it really meant to have faith on a different level. I had to believe for things that I couldn’t see and if I’m being honest, sometimes I got frustrated.

As 2020 began to get closer I realized I did not have some prolific epiphany yet. Like when was my word going to come? As I was driving down the street talking to God (more so, complaining) it hit me. He told me that this is the year of the PROMISE.

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Psalm 37:4

Y’all, I wanted to jump out of my skin. I couldn’t believe it. I was in complete shock, like really, God this is how we’re doing 2020?!!

Needless to say, my heart is full and I’m ready to reap every seed that I’ve sown!

Saved by Grace

"Here I am, God arms wide open. Pouring out my life gracefully broken."

Tasha Cobbs

I grew up in a VERY religious home. My mother is of the apostolic faith and my father is Baptist. I went to church multiple times a week. I knew all of the books of the Bible – backward and forwards. I primarily attended church with my mother because that’s how things were. So naturally, her faith became mine.

I, however, was not the perfect Christian/Holiness girl. I didn’t believe that my head always had to be covered or that I needed to wear dresses to my ankles. That was just not me. I always searched for my true self. I wear earrings, pants, and makeup - I don't believe that defines my faith. I don't believe that I am now somehow unloved by God.

Religion was scary and for most people it still is. Christianity, in particular, seems to be set rules that you have to follow and if you don’t you’re doomed to hell. Despite my thoughts and feelings on this, I know that God is real.

I’ve been SAVED BY GRACE!

Grace in the Christian faith is the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.

There have been times in my life where I know it was no one other than God that brought me through. I believe in the power of prayer. I believe that He is real no matter what anyone says.

When I heard this song by Tasha Cobbs all I could do was weep. My heart so full. There will come a time in your life when you don’t know where to turn. You feel so alone and you have no choice but to seek something higher than yourself. God has kept me. He’s loved me more than I’ve loved myself. His grace has protected me over and over again.

If you only knew my story, I should be dead…but I’m NOT and for that reason alone I will forever be grateful.