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[LIGHT ARISES IN THE DARKNESS] Chapter 1: Why is There Suffering?

Why there is suffering in the world? In the last post, I shared with you my intro for the book, Light Arises in the Darkness: How to Go Through Suffering and Ex...

[LIGHT ARISES IN THE DARKNESS] Introduction

Recently, I mentioned my new book I was writing, Light Arises in the Darkness: How to Go Through Suffering and Experience Incredible Joy. So here is my book--in...

The Blue door floor...

Before... Who puts in a white floor? I will never understand that. I have been able to ignore this dingy thing unti now that we have a dog. One day I just had e...

Beautifully broken (poem)

https://s33.postimg.org/ocqcdmk0v/images2.jpg source i'm a broken instrument a broken string i'm the black pearl on a piano that cant sing or play i'm mute and ...

Little side creativity...

When your daughter is talented in the arts of drama and singing but scared to try her first play...momma offers to do it with her! Yup this happened! And today ...

Before and After

Before... Paid $10 at an estate sale for this in pieces. Sanded, stained, reupholstered... After... I had more time in this one than most but I did sell it for ...

"Time" for a project

Upon finding a plain round board shoved in the corner of a garage...I had an idea. A little work and adding some legs and here we have it....

Original Photography and Art by @allforthegood: Your steadfast love, O LORD

Psalms 36:5 “Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.” As I was driving home in my car, it was quickly approaching ...

As promised...the perfect design!

So after an unexpected life change and move to a new home....God gave me a new passion for redeeming old things into new! I used my front porch as my shop, and ...

Final product!

Remember those plain crates? Well they have been sanded, drilled, painted, dotted, roped, and filled! Then I stenciled Hot Cocoa Bar on some wood I found at a b...

Junk in the trunk!

Ok....maybe more like "Junk INTO Trunk". Someone was getting rid of some old military gun crates. I gave them some new shipping numbers for Aesthetics sake and ...

Side of the road

I found this brown and broken dining room set on the curb. I wish I had taken a before picture! I wont make that mistake again. After some tlc and elbow grease ...

Love Never Fails – Inspirational ORIGINAL ART #10 by @allforthegood

Love. Never. Fails. I’ve thought of this often quoted biblical phrase to mean love will always succeed. I think I want it to mean that because as I pour my love...

The Cost of Doing Business: the Hard Answers

In my previous post The Cost of Doing Business: the big question I asked this mind blowingly profound question: > Why do you go to work? The simple answer that ...

Before and after

Prepping crates for a fun product! I priced every last detail of these yummy gifts and made money having fun! And the kids helped sand boxes, cut rope, and stuf...

The Cost of Doing Business: the big question

Can I ask you a question? Why do you go to work? I’m assuming that you do, because most of us have to. > I submit to you that at the end of the day, you and I w...

The Blue Door's start.

What began as a stress reliever to redo one piece of furniture...became a small business off my front porch! And having a striking front door color to my home a...

What is a "BOON"?

Meet Boone, a new memeber of the Blue Door. His name means an unexpected blessing or miracle. And the story is pretty neat. After 5 long years of my oldest plea...

This is us!

Being a single mom was never in the plan. Working three jobs and running a home alone was never in my plan....but here we are. This is THE home God specifically...

This is us!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOcd4F7BVXsrvIfqKkHIKgalW1ge9JfHBu2DQc0/ Being a single mom was never in the plan. Working three jobs and running a home alone was n...