by Shana Strange | Jul 17, 2019 | media, news
I hate sadness. When I start to feel buried heartache rising up, whether from disappointments or anxiety and dread for the future, I distract myself. I binge watch something, like all three seasons of some questionable TV series that basically serves no purpose other...
by Shana Strange | Jun 28, 2019 | media, news
“It don’t take long to get there when you don’t lolligag around!”, my hubby, who refers to himself as Big C, yelled to me with something that matched a 4 year old grinning over pulling his baby sister’s hair. We certainly weren’t...
by Shana Strange | May 30, 2019 | media, news
So here we are…trapped in a spiritual cave we don’t want to be in. Let’s just be honest here: sometimes God’s methods are not super fun. When God put a dream in my heart and a skip in my step to go out and change the world for Him, I thought it would be filled with...
by Shana Strange | May 13, 2019 | media, news
Comfort is the enemy of progress. I find this to be true in so many areas of my life. I want to lose weight, but I don’t want to be uncomfortable or inconvenienced in the process. I want to fulfill the dreams in my heart but dread any discomfort that may accompany...
by Shana Strange | Apr 25, 2019 | media, news
I feel like my life has been one long string of competitions. Talent competitions, athletic competitions, academic competitions, just to name a few. Very rarely in my life did I ever just live in the moment and enjoy being alive. No, I felt forced to march to the beat...
by Shana Strange | Mar 27, 2019 | media, news
I’ve spent most of my life feeling not good enough. When the world held up the measuring stick of talent, beauty or brains, I could never quite measure up. I always had this underlying feeling of inadequacy. That feeling made me do silly things like enter talent...
by Shana Strange | Feb 14, 2019 | media, news
The stakes are high. The casualties are real. The war is raging all around us everyday. The spiritual climate of our nation is in rapid decay. We wake up each new day to a longer list of victims of this brutal war we are enlisted in. The enemy is out for more than...
by Shana Strange | Jan 26, 2019 | media, news
Women were created to be the protectors of life. We carry within us the genetic code to not only sustain life for nine months, but to also protect that life at all costs. We are fierce guardians that will do whatever it takes to keep our children safe. A few weeks...
by Shana Strange | Jan 1, 2019 | media, news
I woke up today feeling disappointed. I thought things would be different right now in my life but I keep finding myself knee deep in impossible situations with no solution in sight. I can feel the brokenness of my heart threatening to choke off my air supply. The...
by Shana Strange | Nov 10, 2018 | media, news
I walked into the room and my heart sank. I could feel the icy pull of jealousy and envy twisting at my heart again. Am I really going to go here again?? I thought I was over this- I thought I had outgrown the childish need to compare myself to the prettiest or most...
