by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 5, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Family, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
From as far back as I can remember, God has given me a word to ponder throughout the year. But it wasn’t until 2013 that I started keeping track of those words. Each year the word He has given me has defined that year in some way. MY LEGACY—Great-Grandma holding me,... 
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 | Dec 20, 2020 | Devotional, Family, Fiction, Inspiration
Everyone was gathering for the birthday party. All was set. The dining room was perfectly decorated. She had out her best tablecloth, the fancy lace one. Red crepe paper decked the room and there were party favors, little hats with each one’s name, balloons and... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jun 17, 2020 | Devotional, Family, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I know God is the God of the impossible. He did the impossible in my mother’s life. He healed her from mental illness that wreaked havoc with her emotions. And because I had a front row seat to witness that transformation, I was able... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Family, Health, overcomers
I grew up in the 60’s and graduated high school in 1971. It was in the era of tie-died t-shirts, bell-bottom jeans, hippies, drugs, sex and rock and roll. Fortunately, it was also the rise of Jesus Freaks and the Jesus Movement. As the daughter of a preacher, I didn’t... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, Family, Health, Inspiration, overcomers
One minute I was sitting in the green metal lawn chair in my uncle’s front yard, talking and laughing with my aunt while cousins and our children played hide and go seek. The next minute I felt the collapse of the rounded legs as they slowly lowered me to the ground....
