by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
I would be dead today without the grace of Jesus changing my life. It’s a fact I cannot deny and if I had died 15 years ago, it would have been totally my fault. I’ve written about this before, but today I feel led to connect the dots between the parts of my story.... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
We are in the midst of a crisis we’ve never seen before. Everything has changed. Even our emotions have changed. We are in the midst of experiencing crisis emotions and therefore, we are in the midst of the crisis version of emotional eating. It is just another... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog, Fiction, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
I discovered a prose poem I started about 10 or more years ago when I was stumbling around on my weight loss journey. Back then, I had no idea where or how all the jumbled pieces of my life would ever fit together to complete a picture worth anyone ever viewing.... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
Why Can’t I Stop Eating? That was the question I asked myself when I weighed 430 pounds. I felt like I was a slave to my cravings and desires! Today, I’ve lost over 250 pounds with God’s help and I feel better than I have since, well forever ago.... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
I had college degrees and a lot of head knowledge about the Bible, but that still didn’t stop me from believing some really big lies about God. I could see the lies others were believing just by looking at their behaviors. Lies I Believed The lies I believed were in... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
“In God We Trust” is the official motto of the United States of America. This is supposed to be our guiding truth, our absolute reality, the ideal we strive for, but is it really? Do I really trust in God? Who Do I Trust? Research shows most Americans do believe in... 
