Author: MARIA

Continue from my last post giving thanks to all that supported my family during the hardest time of our lives! Giving God the praise even during our darkest hour to give us comfort. Only He can give us that comfort! How talking about my son is therapeutic and writing on my son’s FB page helps… Read more

Sharing a little more about my son who passed recently. My heart is broken into a thousand pieces and all I can do is lean on God to help me through this valley that I am going through. Am not the only one my household is mourning their own way. Random thoughts and I will… Read more

It’s been a minute for me to post another episode. I have shared a lot that death put everything in perspective for me. In the next few episodes I will share about the passing of my son recently. He passed away in his sleep on October 28 2024 and I haven’t been the same since.… Read more

In this episode I share about my friend Safaira who passed away while in seminary. How we became friends in the short time we shared housing and her sharing her traumatic experience that almost cost her life years before not knowing she will pass away 12 hours later. Everyone knows by now that death put… Read more

In this episode I ask a question that I ask myself. I share a bit more about my fear of speaking in front of people and for a pastor’s wife that is not a good fit! Samoans celebrate our children once a year in October it’s called White Sunday. I share about my disappointment in… Read more

In this episode sharing the start of my podcast journey and amazed at the downloads, puzzled on how this works I could not be more thankful people want to listen to my life’s lessons on being uncomfortable in my own skin! To sharing on our journey now in finding a home church for us. Yes… Read more

In this episode I share this past weekend I went to my nephews wedding. How I haven’t seen them for over 20 years and the only connection to our family with through my sister Mena. How I felt not being a part of their life after their father my brother passed at a young age. Read more

In this episode I share about running our own race the apostle Paul reminds us in scripture that we each have a race to run. It doesn’t mean we are not going to have opposition coming against us through family and the people you surround yourself with. Pastors and their families are not exempt from… Read more

In this episode I share a few thoughts I had while on my trip to a funeral of my cousins. My thoughts as I was on a plane full of people how we all have a story to tell. Remembering my first day after arriving to Samoa in seminary. I look at things differently after… Read more

In this episode I share a few things as to why am so grateful God wakes me up everyday. Grateful for my husband, my family, my children and my friends that are close to me. Am even grateful for my days in seminary as hard as it was for me, yes I am grateful for… Read more