Can we make it together?  As I watched the past week unfold, it’s hard to imagine that we can.  It’s hard to fathom we are the United States!  How is it that we can advance so far in technology and so much more but yet we seem to be status quo or moving backward when it comes to skin color?  How is it that we call ourselves the land of the free yet so many live in fear because their color makes them different? We are all created equal in the image of our creator.  We all have our perfections…

Being stretched beyond what we thought we could handle is life’s way of pushing us to live outside the box we build around ourselves.  We create borders by setting limits to what we think we can and can’t do, and then we shape those borders into a box by setting our mindset on our capabilities.  After the shape is complete, we begin to fill it with a variety of things that fit within our comfort level, and everything else gets pushed outside as far as possible.  We see life happening to others and we instantly claim “I could never do…

It’s not a summer body or a winter body…it’s my body.  It is my wonderful, imperfect, often craving ice cream, adrenalin seeking, and work in progress vessel.  My body is my temple and for me to function at my best and serve my family the best I can, I need to treat it as such.  Lately, the two most common statements I keep hearing from most is “I’m going stir crazy” or “I’m gaining weight”  this got me thinking how often when life throws unexpected curve balls at us, we tend to abandon our routine and allow the stressors of…