by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 8, 2023 | Blog, Family, Inspiration, True Stories, Uncategorized
It’s Easter Sunday morning. I am lying curled up next to my husband, his arm around me. These are the type of mornings I ache to be writing. Writing is my drug, as they say. These days, though, lying next to my husband is better than any drug. Perhaps he is my drug of... by Teresa Shields Parker | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Family, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
What should we do when our loving husband brings us our favorite candy and we have committed to not eating sugar? As a Christian weight loss coach, I’ve heard from many wives who are afraid of hurting his feelings if she tells him she doesn’t want that any more. She’s... 
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...