by Teresa Shields Parker | May 18, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Sweet Surrender
I grew up in a very missions-minded church. With this emphasis on missions and my desire to do something special in God’s Kingdom, it wasn’t unusual I went forward in several services over the years to volunteer to be a foreign missionary. I had my heart set on... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | May 11, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Sweet Surrender
It didn’t start out that way. I loved to honor Grandma by reciting poems for her church’s Christmas program. It made me happy to speak because it made her happy. Then came the year I was 12. Grandma decided since I did such a good job learning one poem a year, she... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
I was doing well on my weight loss journey until I saw the scales show that I weighed 199 pounds. I didn’t know why but my body did not want to go below 200 pounds. It wasn’t that I was eating anything wrong and I was still exercising. It just felt very much like a... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
Growing up, I had one primary prayer request: My mother’s healing from her emotional illness. As early as I can remember this request topped every prayer list I ever made, the subject of every spoken and unspoken prayer request in church and Sunday School, the thing... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 20, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
One of the first concepts I learned when I started my lifestyle change journey was that instead of going on another diet to lose weight, I needed to learn how to change my habits. I needed to choose one bad habit to stop and one good habit to start. It was when I... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Mar 23, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
When I was five years old, I was convinced Mom was the most beautiful woman in the world. I remember sitting in the only bathroom in our house watching her put on makeup complete with red lipstick. I was mesmerized. She had acne scars from when she was a child, so...
