Come with me on a new journey. Let’s travel together on a journey that focuses on embracing the positive, encouraging, loving, and wonderful things about our lives and throwing anything else that doesn’t fit out with the trash.
Your Champion
I want this new blog to be an encouragement to you. I want to be Your Champion. I want to fight for you. I want to be your cheering section. I want to be the one that helps you get off the bench, get in the game, and win! I want to be the one on the sidelines that is shouting “look at her! She is rockin’ it! She is letting her light shine!”
Your Light
All of us have a different light, a different motivation for living, a different way of parenting, a different way of loving. This blog is not going to be full of a bunch of “to do lists” and “how-to’s” and impossible organic recipes to make you the perfect woman, spouse, or parent. What do I know about how to be the best you? Only you can do that. This blog will be full of inspiration and encouragement for you to embrace your natural talents what I will refer to as…Your Light…and not just dream about them, but to actively engage in them.
Your Life
I don’t know about you, but I have spent way too much time dwelling in the dark and trying to be someone I’m not. Allowing fear to limit me. My mother said recently to me, ”if we let fear dictate our lives…we make a mistake every step of the way.” No more. I understand that there are rules, I just don’t think they apply to me…or to you. Throw out the rules. Live the Life you want to live. Live the Life You Love. On this blog Your Life will stand for your dreams that you will accomplish. For example, my dream is to be a published author and speaker. I want to tell my story and encourage you to make a difference with Your Life.
Your Love
You have so much love to give. I believe in the unconditional love of God, and showing that love to others. On this blog Your Love will stand for all the ways that together we are making a difference. Loving our children by building them up, loving our neighbors by helping, and loving our world by serving. On this blog, I will spotlight ways you can serve and ways you are serving. I have found that in the darkest times of my life, a chance to love someone in their darker time has given me perspective, inspired me, and changed me.
When we are able to put this all together we will find true meaning. When you are able to dedicate Your Life (dream) to Your Light (your unique gift/talent) you will find Your Love (meaning).
It’s time to live. It’s time to let Your Light shine. It’s time to Live the Life You Love. I will be your Champion.
Tell me by commenting below: What’s Your Light? Your Life? Your Love? Help me so I can be your Champion.
“For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light.” - Ephesians 5:8
Cue: ”Here Comes the Sun” – The Beatles
I'm a "Professional Mom" of 3 children, and a Morning Show Co-Host at WGTS 91.9. in Washington D.C.
Nov 11, 2011 @ 17:27:03
My life revolves around my 18 year old daughter right now. I’m trying to figure out how to pay for her to go to Texas Tech in January. I’m a single mom and want to give her everything but not sure it is possible. I am praying for the finances to be there so I can encourage her in her endeavors. She is an awesome young woman with a few health problems that concern me when I think of her being so far from home. I am praying that God will heal her completely (she has a disorder where her blood pressure drops and her heart races causing her to pass out). She has a heart for babies and wants to be a neonatologist. I have to learn how to ‘let go and let God’.
I miss hearing you every day on KSBJ. You have such a sweet spirit and encouraged me when I would listen to you on the radio.
Dec 01, 2011 @ 13:44:06
Way to get back on the horse, Amanda!
Dec 06, 2011 @ 22:54:49
I admire your strength and perseverance Amanda. It gives me so much inspiration. I have faith that, I too, can start living the life I love. My story is similar to yours. This July my wife told me she wasn’t happy and wanted a divorce. We’ve been married for 23 years and have been blessed with 3 beautiful boys ages 23, 16, and 9. I knew we had problems and they were similar to what every other couple was going through (darn recession). But I had no idea that it would arrive at this. I was devastated and felt helpless with no hope of going on. I immediately turned to God one night and that began an unbelievable transformation. In these short four months I received the strength to carry on. It hasn’t been easy and I still have a long ways to go. Shortly after our break-up I found that she was already becoming emotionally involved with someone else. In September, I had no choice but to accept a job in Denver, forcing me to leave Las Vegas. It was difficult to be away from my kids. My wife continued to move on with her life by moving out of the house and getting her own apartment. Further, my two older kids are experiencing difficulties in their relationships. No doubt as a result of the baggage that they are carrying. I’ve embraced all that has come my way, knowing that God will not give me more than what I can handle. I realize this was my opportunity to find God and build my relationship with him through Christ. Being on the receiving end at times makes me feel like I’m disadvantaged, but I immediately fall back onto my faith and into the arms of Jesus. I found KLOVE through my boss after I arrived in Denver. I have to say you guys have been instrumental in my journey with getting back on track. Thank you for sharing your story. You are courageous and shine a positive light for those of us who are getting back to Living the Life We Love. By the way, I was ecstatic to see you finish your blog post with “Here Comes The Sun” by the Beatles. We have become big Beatles fans since our oldest son’s dream came true and he became a performer with Cirque Du Soleil’s The Beatles Love show at the Mirage Hotel. He performed with them for three years. Now he’s moving on with his new dance school and hopefully break into the movie business. All 3 of my kids are following right behind me with building their relationship with God. We keep asking ourselves “how were we able to live our lives in the past without him?”. Take care and Happy Holidays!
Dec 06, 2011 @ 23:05:56
Wow, couldn’t even spell my own last name right.