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 21, 2023 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers
Is there something someone has done to you or some circumstance that has happened where you felt wronged and you feel you can’t do anything about it? Do you constantly think about it? Do you go to bed ruminating about it, get up with it, and carry it with you all day... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 9, 2023 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
My strong word for 2023 is strong. When God gave me that word, I began questioning what part of that word He wanted me to focus on. Most of us think of physical strength when we hear the word strong but that wasn’t what He was talking about. Kalan Chaloupek, Battle of... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 30, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, sweet grace, Uncategorized
I’m reminded today that 10 years ago God tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to write my first book, my weight loss memoir. I’d been on a transformation journey, being thrilled about losing the next pound, and getting down to the next size. I hadn’t calculated how... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 21, 2022 | Fiction, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Poems and fiction, Purpose
“I just want to be me,” she said to no one and everyone. She was tired of doing the same thing every single day and no one noticed. She had a family, but her husband was on the road and her kids were grown. One was working in a different state, and one was in college... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 18, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
What do you do when you feel rejected? What do you do when people say you don’t measure up to their seemingly unmeasurable standard? Do feel everything you say or do is being rejected? Feeling rejected is a real emotional disturbance. It can make us feel like...