Mastering YOU Monday...stay in your lane

On our road to mastering ourselves and mastering life, we must learn how to stay in our place and be content with just that! Starting today, we’re going to once and for all get in, and stay in our own lanes! We never get to what God has called us to, because we’re so busy NOT doing what we’re suppose to do, but trying to get in someone elses niche. 

God needs each and every one of us to be in OUR place so we can make the whole operation go!! If everyone is over here trying to be a teacher, then who’s taking care of

"Michell's Weekly Pearl"...(Feeling A Bit Neglected)

I know I'm a day late...I do apologize, but it was busy around here yesterday! I do thank you for joining me for another edition of  "Michell's Weekly Pearl", where I seek to use Godly wisdom to offer encouragement. If this is your first time visiting, let me tell you a little about my advice series. This is where you can ask me anything on marriage, women's issues, family matters, relationships, parenting, homemaking, or life in general. If you want an honest, biblically based, to the point answer; email me your questions via prowessandpearls@gmail.com (please put "MWP" in the subject area). I'll post your question, along with my answer, anonymously. Easy as that! I'll also delete your email once I've transferred your question. To read all the questions and answers in this series, you can do so (HERE).

Keep sending those questions in!!! In the meantime, read on to see what "Feeling a Bit Neglected" asked...

"Doing YOU WELL Wednesday #23...I'm baaack!!

So glad to be back…missed you guys!!! Can't believe I didn't blog, didn't check my emails AND stayed off social media for two whole weeks! Time sure flew by. As some of you may know, I took a MUCH NEEDED break from the internet. There’s so much to catch up on and so many blogs I have to visit!  While I was gone, I wasn’t just sitting around with my feet propped up eating bonbons, you know…I was busy! So, on this “Doing YOU WELL Wednesday” link-up, I’d like to share with you what I’ve been up to over the past two weeks.

Some of you might have read my post about my Aunt Kitty(Sarah Mae Flemming) entitled, “A Silent Strength”. If you haven’t, you should…it’s a GREAT history lesson! Well, I’m so proud to say that on Friday, June 28^th, on what would have been her 80^th birthday, she was honored by the city of Columbia, SC, with a street naming ceremony! Now, the corner of Main and Washington Streets in downtown Columbia, is officially named “Sarah Mae Flemming Way”. Whoopwhoop! God is so good! It was a very moving ceremony and we were

"Michell's Weekly Pearl"...(Feeling Guilty)

Hi everyone! Welcome to "Michell's Weekly Pearl", where I seek Godly wisdom to offer encouragement. If this is your first time visiting, let me tell you a little about my advice series. This is where you can ask me anything(within reason) on marriage, women's issues, family matters, relationships, parenting, homemaking, or life in general. If you want an honest, biblical based, to the point answer, email me your questions via prowessandpearls@gmail.com (please put "MWP" in the subject area). I'll post your question, along with my answer, anonymously. 

"Feeling Guilty" asked....

Dear moms...

I know I told everyone to come back today for "Michell's Weekly Pearl", but I'll resume with that next Friday. However, it would be remiss of me to go into this weekend without paying tribute to all the wonderful mothers out there...know that you are loved and appreciated! So, I've pulled out an old post I did for Mother's Day back in October...IKR! I've tweaked it a little and it fits perfectly for this weekend!  In honor of all mothers and especially my lovely mother, Mary Lee Brown-Flemming, who passed away in 2007; who was, in my eyes, the epitome of

Happy Mothers Day...

No, I’m not trying to be facetious, but want to encourage you to not forget the most important part of motherhood – NOT the accolades, recognition of achievements, the hurrahs or praise, BUT the fact that God even gave us children to steward over (watch over, care for, train and love) in the first place. Because He obviously saw something in us that qualified us for this awesome position, we should count it as a GREAT honor! How well we do at it, however, is left up to us. The mother who invests in her child’s life will be the one that child loves and honors. In life there are a few things we must get right the first go around – raising our children happens to be one of them, unfortunately we don’t

Another chapter.....

Last week marked a milestone in the life of our family. It marked exactly one month until our oldest and only daughter gets married. For anyone out there who has ever experienced this, you know exactly what I mean. As a mother with a daughter, it is something that we dream about their entire lives. The question becomes…are we ever really prepared for it? This brings me to my topic for today…CHANGE. Change is something we all WILL go through at some point in our lives…regardless if we like it or not. How well you deal with it, is determined by how well