15 Thursday Oct 2026
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer, Self Reflection
04 Sunday Oct 2026
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer, Self Reflection
Tags
believe, daily encourgement, encouragement, faith, God, hope, Jesus, journey, life, love, purpose, trust, truth, waiting
Girl, I’m so proud of you. I know it’s been the hardest season of your life and you’re still standing. Trusting. Praying. Believing.
I know you never imagined you’d still be here. Needing. Hurting. Exhausted. Wondering.
I’ve learned that nothing last forever so keep holding on! Keep looking up to where your help comes from. God has not left you.
The Lord wants you to know that he’s heard every cry and seen every tear. He knows you’re exhausted. Don’t mistake the silence for absence. He’s closer than the air you breathe. There has been a shift and things are coming together. Be expectant.
I promise when this season ends {and it will} you’re going to look back and say “Look at what the Lord has done!”
13 Friday Mar 2026
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer, Self Reflection
Tags
believe, courage, daily encourgement, encouragement, faith, freedom, God, healing, hope, Jesus, journey, love, prayer, purpose, truth
The Bible says that the truth will set you free. Not our truth, but the Lord’s.
I have gone back and forth with Jesus about my story and how parts of it were so very hard to accept. I asked all the why’s. I cried all the tears. Let me tell you, the Lord is patient. Lol.
I’ve learned this: my story is mine to tell. It’s what I know is true. The Lord’s truth is what set me free from how I perceived my life. My story. The lies I believed that kept me quiet, passive, and ashamed stopped being louder than his voice to me.
It’s only because of Jesus that I am able to tell of what He has done for me, and not only what others have done to me.
I am not a victim. I am not a problem. I am not anyone’s dark secret that holds me hostage.
I am healed. I am loved. I am strong. I am full of purpose. I am a light in the darkness and so are you!!
Don’t be ashamed of where God has brought you from. Your story. Your life is a living testimony to what God can do with your brokenness.
No one will ever be able to tell your story the way you can. You lived it. You survived it. It’s time to shine His light in dark places so others have a way out. A way through.
What are you waiting for?
❤️ Em
05 Wednesday Nov 2025
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer, Self Reflection
Tags
believe, daily encourgement, encouragement, faith, faithful, God, hope, Jesus, journey, peace, promise, purpose, waiting
I need to have an honest moment, friend. I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed lately. It’s like I’m fighting every urge to not feel like a failure, as a woman, a wife, a mom, a friend.
I know I’m probably not the only one with thoughts that keep me up at night.
Or the only one who wrestles with anxiety as my mind spins with worst-case scenarios.
Or the only one who has fears buried deep down that somehow find their way to the surface when I’m alone.
But here’s what I’ve been learning, it’s okay to celebrate the wins even when you’re still struggling in other areas.
And it’s okay to admit that life can be cruel, unpredictable, even traumatic… yet still good, peaceful, and full of purpose.
So, friend, take a breath. We’re going to be okay not because we’ve got it all figured out, or because everything’s in our control, but because we have a good Father who takes good care of His children.
So friend, I’ll be here tonight, praying and hoping right along with you.
Love,
Em
08 Friday Aug 2025
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer, Self Reflection
Tags
believe, courage, daily encourgement, encouragement, faith, Honesty, hope, issues, Jesus, journey, trials, trust, truth, waiting
I was thinking the other day why has this season been so full of isolation and just plain uncomfortable. I look around and my circle of people looks different and the Lord brought the story of David in the cave to my heart.
He went there to escape from Saul. {1 Samuel 22} The cave provided a strategic advantage of safety. He was there alone first then his family came, then others who were going through issues too, came. Before long he was surrounded with the people the Lord sent. People with problems. Not people who had it all together. The Bible says they were in debt, distressed, and bitter. Everyone was in the same boat. I’m sure the 9 months he was there felt like an eternity.
I often wondered why he would send me people in pain when I’m in pain. People who can’t help me out of my trouble nor me help them out of theirs. I know now it’s to comfort each other and grow with each other. A common ache of the heart connects them because in the end that time of cave dwelling is preparation for what is to come. There is a purpose in this.
What we are learning is more than just survival. It’s war tactics. It’s compassion. It’s empathy. It’s the mourning a soul needs in time of troubles without eyes of judgement but eyes of compassion and comfort.
Take a look around you. God is building us up to battle together. It’s no coincidence who has been sent to you, to me. It’s no coincidence where he has sent you and I either. We have been hand picked to fight WITH each other for a greater purpose. Those men would be the ones who would stand by David’s side to fight against the enemies of their day. Tried and trusted. Victors of many battles! So will you and I be, victors of many battles!!
Be encouraged, friends. This is a temporary, but necessary season.
Victory is assured by the One who fights for us, Jesus!!
19 Sunday Jan 2025
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer, Self Reflection
Tags
believe, Confidence, daily encourgement, faith, faithful, God, good, hope, Jesus, journey, love, persistence, promise, trust, truth
The truth about serving God is that we won’t always understand why he allows what he allows. Pain, loss, and heartache are all apart of the humanity we live in. Jesus doesn’t eliminate the hard parts of life but rather joins us in our journey.
God has never not once kept good from us. He gave us Jesus. His son. His one and only son. It’s hard to see through the lens of loss and confusion. Heartbreak and disappointment. The whys aren’t promised but what is, is the good.
Friend, what is coming is not meant to replace what you lost, but to reinforce the goodness of God to give you the good from it.
Don’t stop believing! Don’t throw away your confidence in Jesus!! He’s not done with you yet!! ❤️
Romans 8:32…He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
02 Thursday Jan 2025
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer, Self Reflection
Tags
believe, encouragement, faith, faithful, God, healing, hope, Jesus, journey, life, love, obedience, peace, prayer, promise, purpose, trust, truth, waiting
If you’re wondering how, we can’t know that yet. If you’re wondering when, we can’t know that either. If you’re wondering who, it’s Jesus.
There is nothing more that you can do but be obedient in the waiting. He’s the only one who knows the end from the beginning.
We are 2 days in and I already feel like there is a weight of fatigue. A lack of hope that leaves you motionless. Numb.
The wait has been long and hard and painful, but he’s not done. Believe me when I say I want to see the purpose in all of this just like you do. I want an end to the wondering and wandering.
Friend, if there is one thing I know it’s that Jesus has never not once lied to or quit on me or you. No matter the doubts that my heart has grappled with there is still hope. Hope that when he said he would finish what he started, he would.
Today, I am holding onto hope and hopefully you can, too.
Em ❤️
02 Tuesday Jan 2024
Posted in Faith
Last year on this day I posted this prayer. He answered in all of the ways I never expected. This is the mystery and the adventure of walking with Jesus. Walking with Jesus doesn’t always guarantee a seat at most tables, a comfortable life, or a problem free existence.
A dear friend would tell me …Em, you’re anointed for the struggle. I must admit that I don’t always want to be, but I surrender to his plan not mine. So, again, I pray this prayer knowing I don’t walk alone, never, no not ever.
Happy New Year! May you be blessed to be a blessing and may your surrender be a sweet fragrance to Jesus.
Yes, Lord.
I will go where You want me to go.
I will speak what You want me to speak.
I will pause when You want me to pause.
I will pray the dangerous prayers of change.
I will ask to be inconvenienced for Your name sake.
I will say yes to Your invitations that make no sense.
I will. Just because You ask me to. {Lysa Terkeurst}
Yes, Lord, yes!
#2024 #surrender #again #anewday #anewyear #chapter1
15 Monday Nov 2021
Posted in Faith
Telling the truth was always hard for me. It’s not like I was lying. In fact, I wasn’t saying anything at all. Being taught to not speak of the truth impaired my ability to process. To heal. I became numb to pain that was so harmful to my soul I couldn’t recognize how hurt I really was. Before you can live a life of truth you must acknowledge what aches in you. Learning to sit with yourself and allow the truth to stir in you. That is the discovery that changes everything. The Lord will not allow us to walk around numb forever. There will come a moment when it’s just you and Him and all the funk within you and his love collide. It’s a meeting of the heart, mind, and soul. Many of us will run till we die to try and avoid what hurts. Can I give you some momma advice? Stop running away from you. You will always be where you are. Good thing is, Jesus will always be ready to listen. His pursuit of you and your heart will never end. Are you ready to know the truth that sets you free? His name is Jesus. He is relentless about seeing you whole. Free from deep rooted sorrow and neglect. It won’t happen overnight. This is the Lords doing. He knows what we can handle. He’s gentle. Patient. Kind. Forgiving. He’s everything we don’t know how to be to ourselves. I pray you take a step closer to Jesus today. That you be honest with yourself and let him come and show you how to be whole. You’ll never regret it, I promise you.
Love, Em ❤️
12 Thursday Nov 2015
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Self Reflection
Good evening friends!
Let me give it to you straight…you is good…you is kind…you is purposed.
Your life was destined for a purpose with a specific process that’s only for you.
I know your journey has been crazy, emotional, surprising, and tiring. It has you second guessing your dreams, your desires and future. You’re looking around wondering if any of this matters. It does! How could this possibly get me to where I want to go? It will! No one sees me. No one hears me. What I do doesn’t matter.
The devil is a lie!
The mere fact that I am writing this to you today is proof that you are seen, you are heard, and your life matters more than you could imagine! All of your behind the scenes are being recorded and will one day be a highlight reel for all to see. Don’t stop! Keep going! Keep doing what you love even though you feel no one is watching. Your destiny is being perfected in these small mundane moments of life.
Don’t despise small, ordinary beginnings. Remember, Jesus was born in a smelly manger surrounded by live stock and dung. Believe that he is faithful to complete what he started and let him finish it. I can’t wait to see what he has up his sleeve!!
