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... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 10, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
We’ve all met people who seem fearless. They don’t seem afraid of anything. Then there are those of us who are afraid of certain things more than others and those who are afraid of everything. God doesn’t want us to be afraid. He didn’t create us to be afraid because... by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 2, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
When we don’t trust God to be our defender, protector, provider, healer and comforter. This is when we feel like we are all alone and have to attack every problem by ourselves, but we can’t figure out how. That’s where the disciples were when they couldn’t heal a... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Nov 25, 2022 | Blog, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
What problem has you up at night fretting about how to fix it? What thoughts keep tumbling around and around in your head? What do you worry about? The most debilitating thing about worry is it keeps me stuck in an endless cycle of rehashing and rehashing whatever...