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These Are The Women I Come From...

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"While you were holding me... There are very few women in this world whom I look up too. There have been a few who said they would always be there for me but walked out without an explanation. But these ladies... These ladies have proven time and time again that they are not going anywhere. "God knew that it doesn't matter how your children get to your family, it just matters that they get there." I love these ladies. I am so glad the Lord felt led to place them in my life. It has taken a village to raise me. A wild, bulletproof, independent little girl . "Motherhood is a choice you make every day to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again." It's one thing to be born into a family, but it's another thing to be CHOSEN by a family. In my lif...

My Testimony.

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"Satan's plans to destroy me backfired like dynamite..... I thought I FULLY AND WILLINGLY gave up the pen to Him....turns out I'm still taking it back every now and then. Not to rewrite things but to TAKE things out and ERASE some things that I want to forget and never think about again. But these days it seems like every direction I look, there they are...staring right at me....then I hear God's voice....telling me that it's okay to share those events.....it's okay to be vulnerable....it's okay to FEEL.......to CRY.......to LOVE.......to TRUST; not only Him but to TRUST the people He has placed in my life at this moment in time. - - - - - - - That word: TRUST. It's rather tough for me to do. Nine times out of ten, I am constantly praying that I will learn to do that again. I know I trust Him with my life but I don't know if I trust people in my life. There's a lot of things that I deal with on a daily basis, things that no one knows a...

And So It Begins...

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Hello, I'm Gloria. This is my journal, my story, my journey. Some details may be too vague for some of you, so I suggest you use that imagination of yours...