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 | Nov 30, 2024 | Blog, Fiction, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Teresa's Journey, Uncategorized
I wanted to read like my mother did. She read constantly. It was her one solace in a sea of troubles that seemed to plague her worse than others. So every week, we’d go to the library, and Mom would choose stacks of books to read. I begged her to let me check out... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Oct 2, 2024 | Blog, Health, sweet grace, Uncategorized
The answer is, “Of course it can.” I have heard from numerous people who have read my memoir, Sweet Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds, and their lives have been radically changed just by reading that book I wrote in 2013. Rebuilding Jayne is available NOW on Amazon. I have... 
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...