• Breaking Barriers

    SURRENDER: My Life is Not My Own

    I’ve been going back and forth about what I should post about next. I started last week thinking, I should post something for my birthday, perhaps I can talk about what I’ve learned in the past year. Or maybe I can share some golden nuggets I’ve gathered through the years. Every time I sat down to think about it, I came up with nothing. Sigh. I’ve been doing #tbt on my social media (shameless plug: follow me if you aren’t already, a link to my social media pages are at the bottom of this page) every week leading up to my birthday and this week I decided to share one…

  • Breaking Barriers

    Surrender

    Yesterday was a good day. I went to see the movie, Breakthrough, great movie I recommend. Then I came home and watched Being Mary Jane, which I enjoyed as well. In watching both the show and movie, there was a point in which the characters of both realized the importance of just letting go of control. In a past blog post, I talked about understanding what God has for you, is for you and not trying to control or manipulate things to benefit yourself. Well, this blog is similar, knowing when to let go and surrender to God can be tough, but necessary. All to often we try to hold…