Confessions of this Gal's Sinful Heart

So it's been quite a while since my last blog post.  Three months in fact.  In my last post A piece of Me , I wrote about how there just wasn't enough of me to go around.  In fact, I pretty much have gone to pieces and fallen apart and, well, for the last three months I've been gathering those pieces and trying to glue them back together hoping to feel whole again. Unfortunately, I'm far from whole.  I'm still in pieces everywhere.  Still feeling the aftershocks of my emotional earthquake of a life.  I can't seem to get the pieces to stay glued in and once I bend over to pick up another piece, a different one part falls off.  I can't seem to keep it all together. Financially things continue to get worse and worse.  My husband has barely worked for the last several months and we are just eeking by.  My family life is really suffering, my daughter continues to face many challenges with her behavior issues and school complications.  I...

This weekend I was privileged to attend a Women of Faith conference with about 200 of the women of my church and the bible study I lead called Manna 4 Mommies.  If you ladies have yet to experience this amazing event, let me just encourage you to check out the dates in your area and get tickets!  This conference is tremendously uplifting and inspiring.  The talent is amazing with such incredible speakers as Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, and Brenda Warner.  In addition there's equally incredible worship singers such as Mandisa, Sandi Patty, and Amy Grant and Mark Lowry who adds a unique and funny aspect to the program.  This year has been my third straight year at the conference.  Each year I get a blessing, a take-away from the experience that encourages or inspires me to keep in the faith, grow in the Lord, change my perspective, etc...  This year I prayed for another such blessing, that Aha Moment, as I'd like to call it. ...