Climbing Life's Mountains

Before . . . Going on a mission trip was never on my radar until last year after Mike started a new job and lost vacation time meaning I had three weeks compared to his one week. I never really had a heart for missions and we didn't even have a church home at the time but I knew I was giving a week's vacation to the Lord. Right after we started visiting Fellowship Church Pellissippi, a mission trip to Nicaragua was announced. This trip got my attention for several reasons but one reason was because the team would be working alongside the Weber family and I was familiar with their ongoing ministry in Nicaragua. I knew God was calling me to this mission trip so I stepped way out of my comfort zone and I said yes to God. During . . . Salinas Grandes, Nicaragua is unlike any place I'd ever been before. We started most days with feeding programs where we prepared and served food, played with the children and taught them a Bible story. These were the most well behaved c...

Weight gain has never really been a problem for me until after I had a partial hysterectomy. I suddenly  found that I was gaining weight right in my stomach -- the belly budge. It wasn't a lot but it was more than I was comfortable with. I was working out, doing crunches, doing sit-ups and nothing was taking away the budge. I was told by a doctor that it was just a result of turning 40 and that I was not overweight and not to worry about it. Well, I did worry about it . . . I worried about it a lot. Not only did I worry about it but I became frustrated with exercise and not seeing the results I wanted. The first time I heard about Diastasis Recti was after a Beauty Hunters workout. A physical therapist had me lie on my stomach and with her fingers, she could feel the rather large separation in my abdominal muscles. She told me to stop doing crunches and sit-ups because I just making the condition worse. Diastasis Recti a condition in which the abdominal muscles become stretch...