by Shelia Shook | Aug 13, 2019 | Embrace Life
GRACE OF A PIG MILKER There is talk today in my little town of a new subdivision coming in next year. It will boast approximately 14,000 new homes and a new elementary school. Word is that would more than double our current school population. Some say, “We like our...
by Shelia Shook | Jul 17, 2019 | Embrace Life
I had been pushed down, held under, dragged into the pits, and told I was deformed before I finally found a friend who encouraged me. What about you? What is holding you under? Causing you to sputter and cough? Hope you enjoy this series of lessons I learned from...
by Shelia Shook | May 9, 2019 | Embrace Life
LETTING GO Maybe you recently registered your child for next year’s kindergarten class or college. Or you see their June wedding invitations and can’t believe your baby is growing up so fast. Oh, then they move out of state. They have their own children. Suddenly,...
by Shelia Shook | Mar 11, 2019 | Embrace Life
Did you know if a butterfly doesn’t struggle to leave the cocoon, it can’t fly? It’s a fact that if you help a butterfly out of the cocoon, it emerges easily, but will still have a swollen body like a caterpillar. It may not struggle in leaving the cocoon, but it...
by Shelia Shook | Feb 8, 2019 | Embrace Life
Hi! Here’s a story to help you see past hard work. Remember times when you thought life wasn’t sweet enough, but, once you’d gotten past the difficulty, the times were sweeter in hindsight? When I was fourteen, my parents bought acreage in the backwoods of East Texas...
