Still She Smiles: The Bravery of a Fading Voice
The Beauty of Resilience in Its Quietest Form There is a kind of strength this world doesn’t talk about enough—the strength it takes to keep showing up when life keeps taking.The strength to smile when your body is failing.The strength to love fiercely even in the midst of heartbreak. This kind of strength doesn’t make […]
Not All Hero’s Wear Capes
Not All Love Is Loud Some love shouts.Some love sings.Some love fills a room with warmth and words. But some love…the kind that carries families through storms and diagnoses and heartbreak…is built in silence. This is that kind of love.And this is my dad. Not All Hero’s Wear Capes An Excerpt from Book 2 – […]
THE HANGING TREE — A Song That Refused to Die
INTRO — Some Songs Aren’t Just Sung… They’re Survived There are songs that entertain.Songs that soothe.Songs that drift quietly into the background. And then there are the other songs—the ones born in blood,written in grief,carried by those that have gone on before us,and destined to outlive their singers. “The Hanging Tree” is one of them. A melody […]
The Resilient Rose
INTRO — The Quiet Lessons Hidden in Winter There’s something sacred about the stillness of early winter.It’s a quiet not of emptiness, but of invitation—an opening to listen, to notice, to remember.It’s in those pauses that life often reveals its quiet miracles…and one morning, in the fog and frost, I found mine. THE STORY — […]
When the Effort Isn’t Matched: Straighten Your Crown & Become Anyway
INTRO — WHEN GOODNESS DOESN’T GUARANTEE FAIRNESS There are moments in life when you’ll do everything right —show up early, stay late, go the extra mile —and somehow, it still won’t be enough. You’ll pour your heart, time, creativity, and resources into something you believe in,only to watch it fall flat or fade without recognition. […]
HOPE SHINES BRIGHTEST IN THE DARKEST PLACES
INTRO — When the World Feels Too Dark There are days when the headlines feel heavier than our hearts can hold.War. Famine. Disaster. Injustice. Children suffering in ways that should never exist in any generation. It’s easy to feel small in the face of so much need.It’s easy to feel helpless.It’s tempting to turn away—numb, […]
The Couch, the Crown, and the Commission
INTRO — What We Forget About Heartbreak Some of the greatest commissions in life don’t come wrapped in clarity, certainty, or celebration.They come wrapped in ache. In rooms where dreams have collapsed.On couches where tears fall quietly.In the silence after someone you trusted walked away without looking back. Heartbreak is one of the few places where […]
The Power of One Seed Is Never Obvious on Planting Day
The Seeds We Don’t Recognize Some of the most powerful moments in our lives don’t look powerful at all.They don’t come with applause.They don’t arrive with clarity.They almost never hint at the scale of the future they’re about to shape. Most of the time, they look small. Ordinary.Forgettable. A woman at a kitchen table.A pen […]
A Single Flame Can Change a Nation
INTRO There are stories that live on shelves…and there are stories that live inside of us— pulsing like prophecy,— calling like destiny,— burning like purpose. This is a story that does not fade.It awakens. As I prepare to release my fourth book,This Little Light of Mine: Commissioned to Shine,I feel compelled to offer you this early passage,because […]
THE BECOMING PROJECT — Welcome Post #1
When loss, change, or heartbreak shakes your foundation, remember who you are — Chosen, Refined, and Appointed to Rise There comes a moment in every life when this truth becomes impossible to ignore:No one escapes the fire… but the fire is never the whole story. I learned this in the ashes of my own journey—through loss, […]