How To Swim In Mud: Keep Your Head Up

A Guest Post By Cherise Young During a morning of Scripture reading, I came across some passages where Job compares his former “glory days” to feeling like an outcast. Job’s words resonated with me. I understood what it’s like to go from feeling respected and valued to feeling left out and mishandled. In Job 30:19,…

Self-Sabotage: It’s An Inside Job

A Guest Post By Cherise Young It wasn’t until recently that I, Cherise, really began to look at the notion of self-sabotage. I realized I may not know as much as I thought I did. In a Facebook group discussion, we attempted to determine why we felt stuck and were not achieving our dreams. The…

At 61, I Am Yet Alive

A Guest Post By Cherise Young Hi there. Cherise here. Just eight months shy of reaching her 100th birthday, my grandmother made her transition from this life to her eternal rest. Months later, I still find myself saying, “She really did die.” Not that I thought she would live forever, but I did think she…