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In 2022 I wrote a post titled "If You're In The Valley..." and it marks the moment in time I started using this space to write about more meaningful things than fashion. It marks the moment in time when I began sharing the writing that helped me process my grief. This blog is my personal journey from happy, naïve, and focused on the wrong things - to the person I am today that is constantly growing and changing but hopefully for the better. I could delete my first posts but they show me where I've been. My posts since 2022 show me where I'm going.
-Monica
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Entertaining Divine Timing
You won’t find me pushing “God has a plan” here in the sense that the things, especially the bad things, happening to you are...
Monica Cherry
2 days ago6 min read
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Is it a trust issue or a focus issue?
It seems like for more years of my life than not I have spent my Memorial Day weekends at Gee Creek with longtime friends of my dad. We...
Monica Cherry
Mar 83 min read
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Submit. Pray. Trust.
My regular readers know 2022 was a year of death, waiting, prayers and No’s. I ended the year in a bitter place and I knew it was going...
Monica Cherry
Dec 18, 20249 min read
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If You’re In The Wilderness…
My current daily bible study is not a topical one. It is a very simple one designed to meet you in whatever season of life you are in....
Monica Cherry
Jun 7, 20249 min read
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There's No Good Way to Lose Someone...
I started writing the deeper version of this blog to help me process my own grief and encourage others who also were grieving or just...
Monica Cherry
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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Disoriented Hearts
I don’t know how many of my readers find themselves in similar situations in life as me or relate to my thoughts. I grew up in a...
Monica Cherry
Mar 26, 20246 min read
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Why Do You Kick Against The Goads…
There is a verse found in Acts 26:14 that goes like this, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the...
Monica Cherry
Mar 7, 20245 min read
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When Traditions End...
All good things must come to an end. Or so the saying goes. My family is somewhat a family of tradition. I don’t know that they set out...
Monica Cherry
Feb 29, 20246 min read
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If You’re Not Having A “Happy Good Day”
Communicating with my grandparents as they got older became challenging due to hearing loss. Communicating via technology was a whole new...
Monica Cherry
Feb 20, 20246 min read
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Untitled
I had a hard time thinking of a name for this post. I typed the whole thing out without a title. The software that I use categorized it...
Monica Cherry
Nov 28, 20237 min read
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Thanksgiving
Even though I haven’t been sharing much, I have still been writing. Imposter syndrome is fun. Every time I feel inspired to share...
Monica Cherry
Nov 20, 20237 min read
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The Weight of The Period
I'm not a great grammar student. There is likely a grammatical error in that sentence alone. There definitely will be at least one before...
Monica Cherry
Sep 26, 20233 min read
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It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
I didn't intend for this blog to be any kind of a ministry. I only intended for it to be an encouraging space to share uplifting...
Monica Cherry
Aug 14, 20235 min read
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If You Feel Like God Isn't Listening...
I look back over my life and can think of things that I asked for that God answered. I can see things I asked for and He answered yes. I...
Monica Cherry
Jul 3, 202311 min read
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If You're Going Through An Existential Crisis...
My friend Courtney helped me subtitle this post “A.K.A. Your Thirties”. I don’t want to pretend or equate what I’ve gone through to the...
Monica Cherry
Jun 20, 202310 min read
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If Kindness Was As Easy As A Cup of Coffee...
I moved to Paducah, Kentucky from Alabama in July of 2013. I was moving “north’, but I was still located in the southern region of the...
Monica Cherry
Jun 6, 20234 min read
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Rejoicing and Weeping and Doing It All Together...
I don’t typically post this close together but since this is part two of “Getting Comfortable In The Waiting” I wanted to get it out...
Monica Cherry
Apr 25, 20237 min read
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Getting Comfortable In The Waiting...
This was supposed to have been scheduled for Monday, April 17th but I mistakenly scheduled it for today. I'm glad because it gave me the...
Monica Cherry
Apr 18, 20236 min read
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Some Thoughts On Empathy...
A few years ago I had the privilege of attending a leadership seminar for women. One of the speakers was Celeste Headlee. She is a...
Monica Cherry
Apr 3, 20236 min read
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Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart...
I wrote this in January of 2019. My Grandpa had Alzheimer's and was known to repeat himself pretty regularly. One of his sayings I...
Monica Cherry
Mar 20, 20237 min read
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