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 | Dec 23, 2024 | Blog, Inspiration, Purpose
I’ve thought a lot about this question: When did Jesus figure out who He is and who told Him? Was it a surprise when He found out He was the Son of Father God? When He was in Heaven He knew who He was, but when He came to earth he was a human baby. He came right out... 
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 | 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 | 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...