Calendar Pages Turn

Watch as the calendar pages turn.

You made it past the Time Change and maybe in an area where you watched as tree buds flowered.

Can it be? Can winter be over?

If you’re like me, when I get close to spring, I breathe a sigh of relief. Seasonal depressional is a real thing and many deal with the pain that comes with it. Sunshine is warming my skin and my heart.

Take a bow!

If you deal with seasonal depression, take a bow. You’ve left dark days and days of dark thinking behind. Circumstances may have followed you into the new year, but you’ve controlled your attitude.

Celebrate!

You’ve survived the winter. Now is your challenge. Make the rest of 2022 your year. Set a plan—your plan.

If you need to bring a fresh look into your world and don’t know how to find one, I suggest you look at youversion.com/. Reading plans are available for your needs—a scratch for every itch.

May the balance of 2022 be filled with wonder and purpose for you. Because you’ve made it to today, you have a reason to practice gratitude. That’s a great place to start.

Want to see how The Ladies series began?

Can a woman on the run find herself again?

Ladies of the Fire brought us to the late 1960s as we met the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she fled Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she could get her hands on at the family bank, she left the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stopped in Applegate, Ohio, and decided to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she met Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox, a Southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood.

Together, they enjoyed Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams were spoken and secrets revealed. As they embraced a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose began thinking her past could finally be laid to rest—until someone ended up dead.