Take Heart and Be Strong: Strength For The Weary!
Are you facing a season of overwhelming struggle? Maybe you're battling financial hardship, physical pain, or emotional turmoil that leaves you feeling unseen and isolated. A Woman's Desperate Circumstances When hope feels distant, the story of the bleeding woman in...
Free 31-Day Prayer Journal To Help You Take Heart And Find Strength In God!
Have you ever reached a point where your soul just feels… tired? Not just physically tired, but emotionally worn down, spiritually stretched, and weighed down by life’s pressures? Maybe you’ve felt discouraged in your waiting.Maybe you're carrying something heavy that...
What It Means to Take Heart—And Why It Leads to Strength in God
There are seasons in life when change stretches your heart like a rubber band—pulling, releasing, tightening again—and you're left learning how to live between the letting go and the holding on. I’m in that season right now. My daughter just graduated from Grand...
Is It A Sin To Be Afraid? How To Respond in Faith When Fear Grips You
Is It a Sin to Be Afraid? When someone in a position of authority tells me, “Do not,” my insides stand up straight and tall and salute military style. There must be some “rule follower” gene programmed into my DNA. So when I...
A Prayer For 2025 To Renew The Joy Of My Salvation
As we step into a new year, the promise of renewal fills the air. For many, it’s a time of fresh beginnings, a moment to set intentions and realign with what matters most. But for those of us yearning for a deeper connection with God, 2025 is more than a calendar...
How To Find Healing Health For Your Hurting Heart
How to Find Healing Health For Your Hurting Heart
Why Your Capability To Love Others Well Comes From God, Not Yourself
How do you love someone well? How do you walk in the Spirit and not in your flesh? Did you know that when you become a Christian, you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? God’s presence lives within every believer and empowers Christians to love others...
With Every Memory: Book Review
The novel With Every Memory by Janine Rosche follows Lori Mendenhall after she returns home from the hospital, recovering from a traumatic brain injury from a car accident that also took the life of her teenage son, Austin. The brain injury wiped away her memory of...
Stuff I’d Only Tell God: Book Review
Stuff I'd Only Tell God by Jennifer Dukes Lee is a guided journal designed to help you be ruthlessly honest so you can see the real you hiding behind layers of self-protection. This book guides readers with questions, lists, charts, and illustrations to discover who...
Seven Secrets of the Spirit-Filled Life: Book Review
In Seven Secrets of the Spirit-Filled Life, author and theologian Jack Levison shares how to have a deeper, more powerful relationship with the Spirit. These seven secrets are outlined as sections in the book, with seven chapters in each part. Discover the Holy Spirit...
The Words We Lost: Book Review
The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese draws you into the life of Ingrid Erikson, an editor mourning the loss of her best friend and famous client, Cece. Ingrid struggles to move forward in life, also still grieving her father's death and grappling with resentment towards...
Take Every Thought Captive: Book Review and Giveaway!
Take Every Thought Captive by Kelly Balarie helps readers exchange lies of the enemy for the mind of Christ. This book gives hands-on suggestions for changing self-defeating thoughts in order to transform the way you think. The writing is heartfelt and honest and...
How Do You Think Straight When People Treat You Wrong?
I'm excited to share a guest post from an author whose love for the Lord truly inspires me. I've been blessed to have been on her launch teams for Fear Fighting and Battle Ready. Today she's sharing about a topic I'm sure we can all relate to. How do you think...
Was Jesus Ever Afraid?
The Bible says Jesus was tempted in every way we are. Does this mean he was also tempted to fear? “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin”...
Five Reasons Why Every Christian is an Influencer for Christ
Have you ever thought of yourself as an influencer? The dictionary defines an influencer as “a person who can influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting or recommending the items on social media.” A quick google search says, “Influencers have...
Faith, Doubt, and God’s Mysterious Timing: Book Review
In Faith, Doubt, and God's Mysterious Timing, Laurie Polich Short shares 30 biblical insights about how God works. Her reflections on each passage are refreshing and helped me better understand timeless Bible stories I've heard since childhood. Each chapter explores...
The Gift of the Unexpected: Book Review
What do we do in those "bathroom floor moments" when life shatters and breaks us open? In the Gift of the Unexpected, Jillian Benfield shares how her son Down's Syndrome diagnosis transformed her thinking and faith. Her book helps others find hope in the unwanted...
Five Inspiring Truths I’ve Learned About Biblical Lament
Did you know one-third of the Psalms are laments, and they all end in praise? Until recently, I didn’t understand how lament impacted my faith. It surprised me that my perceived disrespectful outpouring of doubt and confusion toward God turned into praise. Not only...
Welcome to My Amazon Storefront!
Welcome to my Amazon storefront! I'm so excited to share with you that Amazon invited me to have a storefront. That means I’m now an Amazon influencer, and I can advertise my favorite Amazon items through affiliate links on my storefront and website. I even have the...
Girl to Girl: Book Review
Girl to Girl is a 60-day mother-daughter devotional to help draw your relationship closer and deepen your faith. My friend, Stacey Pardoe, wrote this book with her daughter Bekah. I was eager to get started, but honestly, I didn't think my daughters would be...
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About Me
Hello there! I'm Valerie, a mom of four and wife of 27 years. My writing inspires others to cultivate courageous faith and find solace in trusting God, especially in moments of fear and uncertainty. Join me on this adventure as we explore the beauty of trusting God when we are afraid. 
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