Revelation Within Blog

This journey has been about so much more than my weight...and it continues to be. Recently, God has shown me that I have continued to allow my perception of myself to be defined by my...

I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a...

Chapter 7 of Get Thin Stay Thin focuses on "The Present, Not the Past." I find my study of The Search for Significance pointing me to this emphasis as well. The chapters on shame have been very...

I seem to keep swinging between pride and shame. Is it possible I never was truly free of shame? That the pride was really just masking the shame? Oh, Lord, remove it at its root! However painful it...

God has convicted me about how I relate to my past. Years ago (and along the way since) I went through a lot of my past experiences and faced abuses and mistreatment I experienced--as a kid, a...

The need to forgive runs very deep. It influences everything. It is pretty hard to live in the present moment if I harbor resentment for anything done an hour ago or a decade or three ago. Like so...

Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it,and whoever loses his life will preserve it.- Luke 17:33When we relinquish control in order to gain our lives in God, he always gives life back to us more...

~ Letting Go of What I have Been and What I Want to Be ~All my life I dreamed of having horses. When I was 41, I got my dream come true! Four horses just outside my door of my house in the...

Who do you present to the world? Who do you think of yourself as being?I don't mean being superficial or fake. But I mean really who do you think you are? And how do you present that to others?These...