She was gone.  I watched her walk into the pitch black night until she became just a speck that disappeared.  I collapsed, inconsolable, onto the bricks of my front porch that stormy summer night more than a decade ago with my mind reeling between grief and fear.  Would my daughter ever come home again?   Most…

**As we wind down this one-year anniversary Reader’s Top Choice countdown, I want to take just a minute to thank you, again, for reading, sharing, commenting, and supporting me so graciously on this blogging endeavor! The following post, coming in at #1, happens to be one of my personal favorites. Originally posted last December, I’m…

**As we continue to celebrate Grace and Glory’s one-year anniversary this month, we are counting down the Top 3 Reader’s Choice posts of the past year. Originally posted January 22, 2020, here’s #2!** Did you ever wonder how significant you are? Years ago, I had a lofty goal – I wanted to be a television…

**Coming in as the #3 Top Reader’s Choice from the last year, this post was originally published in October 2019. I’m forever grateful that the truths within it are everlasting as we celebrate Grace and Glory’s one-year anniversary this month!** It was definitely one of the darkest seasons of my life I’d ever walked through……

If you would have told me a little more than a year ago I’d be jumping into the blogging arena, I would have laughed. With enough to do on my plate between family and work, I had no inclination to add one more thing to my weekly tasks.   Besides, the world had enough voices speaking…

We all do it. In the hustle and bustle of our day to day activities, we throw things in closets or drawers, pile stuff on counter spaces, or toss things into random nooks and crannies thinking, “I’ll get to that soon.” Days turn into months.  Months grow into years.  Suddenly, we realize these catch-all spaces…