#family

Scripture: Galatians 6:4-5

When growth comes without recognition, it's easy to miss. This chapter reflects on redefining progress as happiness, presence, and becoming better today than yesterday—without needing applause

Scripture: Romans 8:38-39

I didn't grow up learning that love was given freely. I learned that it was conditional—earned through usefulness, obedience, or effort. This chapter explores how that absence shaped the way I learned to love as an adult, and the work it takes to unlearn it.

Between appointments, bills, and unanswered attempts to work, the day carried a familiar tension—doing everything right while progress still feels out of reach.

Scripture: Proverbs 17:28

I learned early that silence was safer than honesty, strength was required to survive, and usefulness was how love was earned. This chapter explains how those lessons shaped the way I learned to relate, endure, and love.

Scripture: Psalm 27:10

I was still a child when I learned that needing someone didn't mean they would stay. This chapter reflects on abandonment, longing, and the moment emotional self-reliance stopped being a choice and became a necessity.

Scripture: 1 Timothy 5:8

Before I ever dated anyone, love felt simple. It meant providing, supporting, and showing up responsibly. This chapter explores how that definition formed early—and how its simplicity later revealed both strength and limitation.

Scripture: Psalm 55:4-5

Some of the most frightening moments of my childhood weren't the punishments themselves—but the waiting. The hours where my body braced for something I couldn't control.

Scripture: Psalm 37:4

There's a future I carry quietly — one shaped by love, family, and second chances. I don't talk about it much, not because it's small, but because it matters too much to handle carelessly.

Scripture: Isaiah 49:15

Love growing up wasn't something I felt consistently—it was something I observed, survived, or interpreted through absence. This chapter explains how provision, distance, and unpredictability shaped the way I learned to understand love.

Scripture: Psalm 68:5

Before I understood love as connection, I learned it as survival. This chapter reflects on how childhood shaped my instincts, how self-reliance filled the gaps, and how becoming a parent transformed the way I understand love, family, and legacy.

A long Christmas Day filled with noise, generosity, and unexpected moments—ending not quietly, but meaningfully.

Scripture: Psalm 78:4

One day, my children will look back on me — not as I was in a single moment, but as I showed up over time. That future version of me is already being written, one ordinary day at a time.