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Book Reviews, Encouragement, Life Is Beautiful

Raising Big Kids with Supernatural Love (Book Review)

Gentleness is seen as a strong quality. In Proverbs 25:15b, “a gentle tongue can break a bone.”

Raising children is tough.

I don’t think it’s ever been easy to be a parent, but I do think that parenting now may be more of a challenge than in any other era.

As parents, we face unique difficulties that our parents and grandparents didn’t have to contend with. The internet didn’t exist in past generations and with its arrival came a whole host of issues we must now monitor, offer guidance for, and protect against. Continue Reading

April 9, 2016
Abuse and Self Care, Encouragement, Life Is Beautiful

Comes the Dawn: Be Strong for Yourself

Have you been in unhealthy relationships? Probably at least one at some point, right? I sure have.

I’m still figuring out why: what led me to believe I didn’t deserve more…why I wanted to stay…what made me think I could fix it…or fix them.

When I was a junior in high school the assignment in my Creative Writing class was to find a favorite poem and act it out. I chose this poem that I’m going to share with you. Bear with me and you’ll discover its importance.

What surprises me about this poem is that I didn’t listen to it…then. I have loved the words all these years and felt their meaning and knew how true they were. But I just couldn’t apply them in my own life and empower myself.  It’s so often hard to think of ourselves as deserving of good things, good people, strength. To paraphrase Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman “the bad stuff is easier to believe.” Vivian could have used this poem too. Continue Reading

February 23, 2016
Encouragement, Life Is Beautiful

2016: A Future and a Hope

Tonight we ring out another year past. We sweetly remember the beautiful things and say “good riddance” to the painful junk.

We resolve to do better, look better, eat better.  To get organized and finally get fit. All noble resolutions that most of us won’t keep…again. 😉

BUT we have hope always hope. God promises us a future and a hope and I encourage you to start the new year when the click ticks twelve, with an attitude of positivity: about yourself. 

You are good. You are worthy. You deserve wonder and beauty and comfort.

Be expectant in 2016. Expect wonderful things. Look for ways you can make things wonderful for others.

Be blessed and safe tonight in whatever you do, whether it’s a grand gala or a peaceful ringing in at home in the arms of the one you love.

Unwrap the gift of hope that your future promises.

Be Expectant!

Melanie S. Pickett, blog

December 31, 2015
Life Is Beautiful

Love and Roller Skates

Roller skating is like life.

When I was about 10 years old or so I fell in love with roller skating so much so that one year, my parents gifted me with my very own pair of quads. They were white with bright royal blue wheels and blue stripes down the side of each skate boot. The laces matched the wheels. They were my new prized possession. I proudly skated round and round my Dad’s garage blaring my favorite music (an ABBA 8-track tape was in my top five). In fact, I still own those skates. My daughter wore them during the roller skating unit in elementary school gym class. Roller skating is one of my fondest childhood memories, even still.

To my surprised delight, my husband whisked us off to the local roller rink a few weekends ago. It was my first roller skating adventure in about five years and I felt 10 again. I laced up those skates and glided out onto the rink.

I felt like Bambi. Continue Reading

November 22, 2015