by Teresa Shields Parker | Aug 5, 2025 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
We all know what a birthday is. It is the celebration of the day you were born. This year, if I happened to eat cake which I gave up about 15 years ago, there would be 72 candles on my cake poised to burn the house down! However, I don’t eat cake any more. There was a... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog, Devotional, Health, overcomers, Purpose
For years, I had a problem with weight. God told me what to do, but I didn’t do it. Then, I came to the end of my rope and was afraid my time here on Earth was approaching an end. Desperation will cause us to do some amazing things. I finally surrendered to God. When... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 1, 2023 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
What disappoints you? Is it yourself? Is it circumstances you think you shouldn’t have to go through? Is what you think God should have done for you think He didn’t? Is it other people giving up on fulfilling their potential? When it comes to our personal failures and... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 28, 2023 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Uncategorized
King David asked God a question I’ve asked myself many times. “Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise Him again—my Savior and my God!” (Psalms 42:11 NLT). That’s what we should do, but many times we don’t. The word... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 21, 2023 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers
Is there something someone has done to you or some circumstance that has happened where you felt wronged and you feel you can’t do anything about it? Do you constantly think about it? Do you go to bed ruminating about it, get up with it, and carry it with you all day... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 12, 2023 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Poetry, Purpose, sweet freedom, Uncategorized
Shades of blacks and whites Long black angry shadows Hiding fears, mistrusts, and shame And white as far as the eye can see. Nothingness. I wear my despair in monotone. No cure for my sickness. No help to pull me out of lifelessness. No desire to climb to freedom....