by Vickie Petz | Mar 20, 2023 | ENCOURAGEMENT, Uncategorized
Lifeguards need to know how to swim No one hires a dog paddler to rescue others. Before we start throwing out lifelines to others, we need some victory experience. Lifeguards need to know how to swim. Last year, I spent some time taking swimming lessons with those who...
by Vickie Petz | May 4, 2018 | ENCOURAGEMENT
Preparing for the Unshakable Women’s Conference and I’m not sure I can speak from the raw places in my heart without crumbling. I suppose the only way to know if you are unshakable is to be shaken. All week I’ve tried to prepare, but I don’t...
by Vickie Petz | Apr 20, 2018 | ENCOURAGEMENT
Finding your identity and knowing who you are Unchecked, pain becomes your identity. My life turns on an unwanted hinge; before I got sick and after. The day my hands refused to obey my brain changed everything, but I don’t want my illness to become who I am, nor the...
by Vickie Petz | Mar 30, 2018 | ENCOURAGEMENT, Uncategorized
True forgiveness means never mentioning it again. Forgiving the betrayer is hard, not mentioning it, nearly impossible. Word assault The words spoken punched me right in the gut. A friend of the deceased told a story that pummeled me in my weak places. There was an...
by Vickie Petz | Mar 23, 2018 | ENCOURAGEMENT, Uncategorized
I never knew anyone whose ambition was to become a trash collector, but somebody’s gotta do it. People probably think my job as a stork was pretty glamorous but, if you saw the bags under my sleep-deprived eyes and my delivery room shoes you’d know the...
