by Teresa Shields Parker | Mar 31, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
Stress—a feeling of mental or emotional tension. It creeps up on us slowly and then before we know it will totally overtake our lives to the point that we feel like it is just a byproduct of life.Most of the time we can’t even pinpoint when it began. It just feels... 
by Gazeley Victoria | Mar 24, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
We are stressed, worried, fearful and overwhelmed. That about sums up the year 2020 and is starting to define 2021. I am concerned about the many who are caught in the overwhelming stress of just trying to live everyday life. Although stress may seem like just a fact... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Family, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Uncategorized
If there’s one thing I’ve learned on this lifelong journey of weight gain and weight loss it is that I cannot lose weight for someone else. I can only do it for me. We can’t lose weight for our husbands. It has to be for us. We have to want it for ourselves. So just... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Mar 9, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
Have you ever prayed and asked God one thing and He seemed to answer with something that was totally off-topic? For most of my adult life, I felt this way when I prayed about my life’s calling or direction. Understanding God’s Answer My prayer would always start out... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
Hey Beautiful. Yes, I am talking to you. You don’t have to be everything to everybody. You only have to be who God wants you to be. I learned this the hard way. For so many years I felt I had to do everything for everyone. They didn’t even have to ask, I would just... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
I woke up at 2:15 a.m. with God saying to me. “I loved you into existence.” My first thought was of course You did. You created me. Without Your desire for me to exist, I wouldn’t exist, I wouldn’t have life. God literally loved me into existence. He saw me before I... 
