MELINDA K. BOWENS

Now, I don’t know what the individual plans will look like for each of us, but I am more than certain that we each need to have one. Because

So, it’s that time of year again!!! No, I don’t mean the holiday season, I mean the “New Year, New Me” season. The time where we start evalu

Join Chrystal Evans Hurst and myself as we have an honest chat about being happy when you're really just over it all!

But I’m Right…And Why That Doesn’t Matter Y’all, I looooooooooove being right. I don’t really mean right as in always doing the right thi...

Y’all, I looooooooooove being right. I don’t really mean right as in always doing the right thing, I mean right as in always having an answe

It really stuck with me that sometimes we play the same record (song) over and over again, not because we like but because it's familiar

Well, today a question was asked in the group and I had an immediate answer, but I wasn't exactly thrilled to share it with the masses.

It's such a human thing to desire the easier option; especially when we live in a time and place where the goal is to do the least amoun

Either way, the God we claim to love and the people we claim to love are being cheated. Yes, cheated. Cheated out of our full heart. Cheated

We make life complicated…including following Christ So, hello there, my name is Melinda and I specialize in making a mountain out of a mo...

You Don’t Deserved To Be Healed… Now that I have your attention (however harsh it may be right now), let me clarify. It’s not that I don’...

When I first thought about how do we hear the voice of God, the first image that came to mind was trying to find the perfect radio station i

Ummmmm, God…This isn’t what I ordered “Everything will be all right in the end. If it is not yet all right, it is not yet the end.” Now, ...

You Deserve Love Love. It is a four-letter word we hear so often from those we love. Yet, we are sometimes left with scars from people wh...

#BreakingTheCycle: That moving target…and my bad aim When my little brother and I were younger, we would occasionally make a trip to the ...

#BreakingTheCycle: Tomorrow… When I was thinking about the title for this post, I immediately started singing the song from “Annie.” You ...

BreakingTheCycle: But what if… But what if *insert fictitious disaster* happens?! But what if *insert event that has never happened in th...

BreakingTheCycle: Self-Sabotage The word self-sabotage can be weighty all by itself and for a couple of reason. For some of us, we know w...

#BreakingTheCycle: When my emotional eyes are bigger than my belly… That title was a little long, but it worked. Plus, I may or may not b...

#BreakingTheCycle: Dr. Seuss was on to something… “Today you are You that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You...