Grace and Curls- a twisted kinda beautiful new beginning.

Well hellooooo, Twenty-Eighteen! What up boo?! It's incredibly nice to meet you so far! My dear sweet friends and readers: I hope your year has begun with lots of hope and promising outlooks for the future 12 months we all have ahead of us. We're over half way through the first one already! Let that sink in! 1/24th of the entire year has already come and gone with the blink of an eye. Isn't that a little amazing and a little scary all at the same time? I surely think it is! If you're reading this, take a second to give a little personal inventory of your last 15 days:  How did you feel?  What did you do in the last 2+ weeks? What New Years resolutions did you set before the clock struck midnight that you've kept? Which ones are already out the door? Who have you shown a little extra love to? Who have you helped? Is there any shame or resentment or guilt you've let go of and left in 2017?  Is there any you're still holding onto even n...

I've learned a lot about radical grace in the last weeks of my life and I've learned that until recently, I don't think I ever fully understood what it was. Between the amazing preachings at Passion City, and reading an incredible book written by my sweet friend, Lynne Moyer, called 'City of Lights,' I've finally begun to grasp it deeper. I've been learning that grace doesn't just exist with God, but grace is within every human being on this planet... everyone was made in His image and everyone has that grace inside. But pulling out the grace (the deepest inner sunshine) and sharing it with others isn't always the easiest thing to do.  However, it's doable. But it's all in small (I'm talking they can be TINY) choices and decisions. Weather you're an atheist, a Christian, a spiritual Buddhist, or simply a universe lover, we all have grace. And we all have ability to use ours for the better good of the world and for all people....

Happy Fall, ya’ll! This weather this week here in Atlanta has had me in the brightest mood! It’s been blue skies and sunny, but 65-70 degrees! How perfect!? Anyhow, enough about the weather. I wanted to make a post since it’s been a little while that I’ve written, and after all, this is supposed to be 12 (full) months of sunshine! Over a month ago I wrote about intentional acts of kindness and self-love. Well I’m going to save the self-love topic for later, but I wanted to share a little about some of the intentional acts of kindness that I have been personally putting effort into, and that I’ve personally experienced from others lately. It’s been incredible and beautifully eye opening to see how many amazing things you notice around you when you’re intentionally looking for them. Simultaneously, it’s interesting how many things you notice you AREN’T doing until you gain acute awareness of them. I’m a firm believer that we are in full control of our lives and even our circ...

Well hey there strangers! It's been a couple months and I have been off the grid from writing! When I go this long without making a post it always bums me out just a little, but simultaneously makes me smile because I know it's because I've been busy and living through much hustle, bustle, and excitement! I hope those of you reading this are sitting somewhere in an environment of peace and surrounded by loving feelings. If you aren't, wherever you may be in your life today, find a way of calming your thoughts and the chaos in your life right now. Take a deep breath and give yourself a silent affirmation that for these next few minutes of reading this post, you will simply relax, and rid your mind of all outside stress that may be affecting you today.  Breathe in... Breathe out...  Think of one single thing that makes you smile.  And continue reading from here :) Sometimes life is so crazy that we truly have to remind ourselves to simply breathe! I can...

Well hey there blog reading peeps! I hope this post finds you happy and wonderful right now, wherever it may be that you are reading this. It’s been really awesome how many people have said that they haven’t seen a post from me from June yet, and now we’re already a week into July! My response has been the same, “I’ve been having too much fun to write!” Which has been 100% true! So much good has been happening in life, and it’s all come from experiences, and the people I’ve been experiencing with. When I looked back on the month of June, I was almost disappointed with myself because I hadn’t written or posted on the “theme” for that month in the originally planned “12 Months of Sunshine” series I’ve been writing. I started this blog series in hopes to benefit myself and the way I live life, and also those around me that read it! But once I really thought about the point of the series (doing more good in the world, sharing more love, kindness, and sunshine, being better so ...

Last night in an Uber ride, the driver struck up conversation that eventually lead to how he was bullied in middle and high school; how he was picked on, physically and verbally, and tormented on enough occasions that he decided to leave school and be home schooled. He eventually went back to public schools after he "stopped caring" what everyone else thought and is now in college pursuing computer science and driving for Uber as his job. "What did your friends think about all of that? Did they help you through it?" I asked him inquisitively. "Well, I didn't have any friends. There was nobody that I had as a friend except for one guy, but he was only in one of my classes one year so I didn't see him but for a brief time each day." He literally had no friends. And said even now, as an adult, he doesn't do much but school and driving; that most of his friends are only online. I happily exchanged numbers with the stranger of an Uber driv...

May is finally here. What a blessing it is that this month has come at the time in life that it has for me.  I hope and pray it's a wonderful new beginning and chapter for you in your life, wherever that may be, as well! 5 years ago, in 2013 I began a (what I like to call) mini-movement on social media called Make May Matter. The intention behind the movement was to wake every day during the month of May and intentionally seek out the good in life that made me happy; things that made my life beautiful; things that made me get out of bed and live every day. Seeking something great in each day, and posting it on facebook, Instagram, snap, twitter, or what have you, and essentially bombard social media with happy, wonderful posts about what you're living for; always with the hashtag #MakeMayMatter. And why not challenge the rest of my friends on social media to do the same with me? Thus Make May Matter was born! What would life be like if the goal of each day was to find bea...