Life is not meant to feel too lumpy, too dense, too fluffy or too flat.

If you were given one shot to live life over again, what would you do differently? Your one shot starts today!

But just think what extending a little grace has the power to do. And not just in them--but in you.

Grief never ends. But it changes. It is the price of love.

Life is a process for all of us. No one is exempt.

God sees my life without rose colored glasses. He sees the cavities and the stains and he still draws out the most beautiful life for me.

There is such beauty to be found in the ashes of what you have been through.

I will essentially have to present myself naked to the world around me... without a shield. And.that.is.truly.terrifying

Hi, my name is Patty. I am a grateful believer who is a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

And just maybe, those tears I have been cry'n, are coming from that new onion layer

Relapse... will you allow it destroy you or to grow you?

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.

Isolation can be dark, and gloomy, and restrictive, and safe. Isolation is fertile ground for relapse.

All of who I am is meant as a gift to someone who is deserving of that gift. And right now, that someone happens to be me.

It only took 854 miles to clear my head and heart

This is me. At 19. A high school drop out. Pregnant. Painfully unaware.