Brittany Lea

04/20/2025

The day the sun stood still
Evil prevailed and sadness filled the air
An unfair trial and dreadful death
A mothers eyes filled with despair

Friends going to visit at a tomb
Only to find their teacher no longer there
How could a gracious God allow this
It all just seemed unbelievably unfair

So many emotions to follow
Doubt, confusion, sadness and fear
Soon would be replaced with peace
As they learned their risen king was near

His resurrection held joy and hope
Still offered for me and for you
Death could not hold our Savior
He had risen; a promise held true

Thank you God for Sunday
A reminder that our King reigns
We know our Sunday will come AGAIN
And because of that, hope remains!!

04/09/2025

Slow Down Sis…my second book hit Amazon Prime this morning 💕

This is the second book in a 3 book series-Slow Down Sister. The first one was focused on praying for your hubby…but this one is for YOU! Over the last few years, God has really revealed to me the things in my life that were hindering me from experiencing true peace and fulfillment. Most days I felt like a complete failure, because like so many women my age, I was caught up in the ripping and running of this life. Having a full time job and being a wife and mom isn’t for the weak...I know-but, we can’t tap into His strength if we are unwilling to give Him control. I had no idea how tightly I was holding on to the things of this world until I started to feel like I had lost control. This devotional serves as a reminder that you don’t have to have it all figured out! We are called to surrender, yall. And it’s in our true surrender that He meets us with peace and grace 💕

Get your copy by Saturday if you order today! Also, if you ordered my first book, please consider leaving a review on Amazon. It helps them stay as prime items, but more importantly will broaden my reach of ministry outside of Loranger.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1963514157

Thank you all for your never-ending support…it means more than you know!!

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02/12/2025

“You will continue to run around-exhausted, chasing lesser glories, until you see and behold the one whose image you were made in and whose purpose you were made for and declare him as Lord. This should be the daily posture of our hearts.”

Meredith Knox

02/07/2025

When I signed with this company I knew they were doing amazing things! But I didn’t know they donated ALL proceeds to pediatric cancer research. Book number 2 has been submitted, but their efforts for the month of February are being spent advocating for Childhood Cancer-something very near to my heart!

My first experience with pediatric cancer was with a 7 year old little boy named Karson. He was the same age as my Addie when I cared for him as his hospice nurse. So often I would compare their sweet little lives. While I was taking my daughter to trick or treat-I was looking for different regimens to manage his intractable vomiting. While my daughter was finding her voice, he was losing his. I got to put bows in her hair, but he lost all of his. I got to put earrings in her ears, but I had to put an NG tube in his nose. I had the honor of holding his hand and laying in bed with him and his sweet momma when he took his last breath, and it left a forever mark on my heart.

One of my highschool best friends walked this same road recently with her baby girl Kallie.

Kallie and Karson are now walking the streets of gold, but so many others are still walking the awful reality of pediatric cancer.

This world is broken and unfair, plagued with sin and disease, but HOPE is never lost. Until we are called home, we are to stand in the gap and fight for kids like them in whatever way we can. We are called to carry light into the darkness. We are called to pray. And we are called to support financially when and where we can.

Keeping a Light Foundation, Bell Asteri and Ashland Ink are doing great things in this realm and I’m thankful to play a small part 💕

Nine of 11 patients in new brain cancer trial saw their tumors shrink by at least half. One really beat the odds.

01/04/2025

💬Day 3

Genesis 5-6
Genesis 5 tells us that the Lord regretted that He has made man on the earth. That is a pretty solid statement. But it’s honest. He looked around at all the chaos and violence and said-I’ve had enough.

It’s easy to for us to forget that god is not just an omnipresent being-he’s our father. And because we are made in his image, he has thoughts and feelings like us. He can be disappointed, angry, pleased, joyous, etc. In the times of Noah, he was fed up (and I think he’s getting that way now too).

I look around at this life sometimes, and I feel those same feelings of disgust. But God didn’t completely throw his hands up. He found the good-in Noah. He regrouped and restructured in his graciousness.

Psalm 3
My reading in Psalm today reminded me that he is the lifter of my head-when I’m at the end and fed up too. He sustains us!

Matthew 5
So much here! The law was a standard to guide generations before us-but Jesus came and pointed out that it’s truly about the condition of our heart and mind. He’s wants us to act differently than the world-not just to follow Christian rules- but because of our love and gratitude for all he has done.

01/02/2025

I see many of my friends are reading the Bible through in a year and I am doing it too. Last year I set out to complete this, after making the same commitment so, so many times before. But in 2024, I finally saw it through. It showed me how much I didn’t know. It reminded me how good God was. And it shocked me at how dark and unedited it was.

The Bible is history, the Bible is praise, the Bible is letters, the Bible is prophesies. The Bible is good news. But more than anything, the Bible is God-breathed, hope and love.

I’m gonna try my very best to consistently share my daily thoughts and I’d LOVE to hear y’all’s takeaways too. Because along with all the other things the Bible is-it’s personal-and hits us all where we need it in that moment.

Day 1 Thoughts:
In the beginning, there was God, and with him, there was nothingness. He spoke and just like that-life happened. Plant life, animal life, and humanity. Creativity gave birth to diversity. Day and night. Land and sea. Man and woman. And it was GOOD. With the new year brings new goals, and that’s my favorite. But my prayer for my family is that our goals will not to be like those of the world around us-rather like our God-the image in which we were created. I pray that we embrace our diversity rather than try to blend into this culture. Loud and soft spoken. Curly hair and straight. Short and tall. Talkative and quiet. I hope we all learn to lean into our diverse appearances and personalities in this New Year. I hope we learn and grow and look at ourselves and others through the eyes of our maker. I pray we look back, with full hearts, on the close of 2025 just like God did at the close of creation and say…it is good! 🥰

12/20/2024

He’s been really hard to parent lately. He’s been restless and ornery and disobedient. And despite it all, his daddy brought him home a treat today. I’ve been reading in Hosea this week, and God used this interaction today to remind me of the truth. Like my boy, we can be ornery and disobedient. Like Isreal, we are an adulterous people. We stray away. We hurt God’s heart with our ways. But like Kade’s daddy-God gives us good gifts anyway. He loves us anyway. He forgives us anyway. And he teaches us to do the same. It’s why we are celebrating this Christmas season. We are an undeserving people who have received a beautiful gift…the most perfect picture of grace and redemption and love-in the form of His son.

Hosea 6:3 says, "Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth".

Thank you God for mercy. Help me give it more freely father 🙏

12/06/2024

Hardcover is available through this link on Amazon! Paperback coming soon on Amazon and Barnes and Nobel.

Everyone’s support is overwhelming! 💕

God designed marriage to fulfill our fundamental needs for friendship and intimacy. However, alongside the profound joy it brings, marriage also involves the challenges and struggles of two imperfect people. This journal provides wives with a 31-day guide for intentional prayer for their husbands...

12/04/2024

I’ve known that the Lord wanted me to write for a while now, but putting yourself out there is hard, especially when you’re still walking through stuff and trying to trust as you go. I was a baby when I got married, so the last 18 years have certainly held many ups and downs. We know all about sickness and health, poverty and wealth, and the good and bad that our vows spoke of. We have walked through business owning, adoption and baby raising. We’ve been versions of ourselves that were so good for one another, and versions of ourselves that were so shameful we didn’t even recognize who we had become.

I believe with my whole heart that God places circumstances in our lives to grow us and lead us toward kingdom purposes. I believe he places people in our paths in certain seasons to guide us and strengthen us in our faith. I believe he knows us better than we know ourselves. And I believe he can use both triumphs and struggles for His glory. I have seen these truths most evidently in the context of my marriage.

There has been unmeasurable joy and unspeakable hurt. But, through it all, God’s love has remained steadfast. His call to love Him first and grow in love and grace toward my husband has never changed.

I find it “just like God” to have me release my first book on marriage, instead of something I feel like I am really good at…but, hey, that’s faith, right?! He doesn’t call the equipped, he equips the called. When we are weak, He is strong! And for that, I’m so, so thankful.

Book release coming real, real soon!!

God designed marriage to fulfill our fundamental needs for friendship and intimacy. However, alongside the profound joy it brings, marriage also involves the...

11/26/2024

I’ve been told all my life that I can be a lot. I was told that just this week. Heck, I get on my own nerves sometimes. I can be clumsy, emotional, needy, messy, and easily distracted. Because I know I can be a lot, I often feel like a disappointment to God. But tonight, He reminded me, that, while I may be a lot for others, I’m not a lot for Him. While I may not be enough for myself sometimes, I’m always enough for Him. Because He doesn’t need me, He wants me.

My whole life I’ve had a narrative of what my spiritual walk was suppose to look like. The typical morning quiet time and night time prayer,
with some other Christian things sprinkled in. I’ve always felt if I didn’t do those things, I was annoying or letting God down.

But this weekend, in the quiet of my flight home, that narrative switched. While I was gone, I didn’t do some of those check list things like reading my Bible and journaling in prayer each night. But that didn’t get on God’s nerves or make Him mad.

At the start of my plane ride home, I was feeling guilty for not spending more time with Him while I had more time to spend. But, He quietly reminded me that a relationship with Him isn’t about doing everything just so, just because someone years ago told me that’s what a dutiful Christian does.

While I didn’t read my Bible while I was gone, it didn’t mean I didn’t abide in Him. I was in a continued state of thankfulness for my ability to overcome fears and spend time with my daughter. I was blessed by Him as I spent time with and was shown love by an old friend. I was vividly aware and in awe of the beautiful things He has created. I was impressed by the abilities of the extraordinary people He has spoken into existence.

He doesn’t need me to do more, He is just fine with me worshiping Him in my own chaotic way. He’s fine with me binging my Bible for hours one day and then abiding in those truths for the next few days. He’s okay with me journaling like a mad woman in prayer some days and just sitting in His love other days. He reminded me that it is a beautiful thing that we are all wired differently and that means our relationships with Him will be both individualized and personal.

So, friend, let go of what you have been told and how you think you should commune with God. Instead, let him meet you where you. Bring your real true self to the table, just as you are.

It is a freeing feeling knowing that God wants us, even though he doesn’t need us. He wants us to bring our worship, guilt free, to Him, no matter what it looks like in this season. We aren’t a lot for God…and we don’t get on his nerves.

11/07/2024

I did a thing!! Praying that He will use my writing in a powerful way and that I can be a vessel of encouragement to wives and mothers in the same season of life as me.

Stay tuned for book release dates 💕

Welcome new author Brittany Traylor!

10/19/2024

God doesn’t give us busy work 🗒️

I teach 11th grade and 11th graders are pretty great. They are real. They like honesty and they like to see the big picture—because they don’t want to feel like their time is being wasted. I told them from day one (and I meant it)- that I would never give them “busy work” - that everything I asked them to do would have a purpose. And I asked that they trust me…

Sitting on my porch and thinking about the dumpster fire that feels like life right now, God whispered to my soul - “I don’t give busy work either, just trust me.”

We can’t see the big picture, so sometimes the trials in this life seem purposeless. But, God’s word says otherwise. We don’t just go through things for no reason; each season and situation we encounter is tailored to deepen our relationship with Christ. God desires for us to know him, to bear fruit, and to encourage others.

Stressful seasons can teach us peace. Loneliness teaches us how to find a friend in Jesus. Inadequacy teaches us dependency. Inconveniences teach us patience. Hurt teaches us forgiveness. Every misaligned priority teaches us how to reorder our life in a way that pleases him.

Every test and trial produces perseverance. And perseverance builds our character and allows us to exhibit the fruits of the spirit. And when it’s all said and done, we can look back and find gratefulness in each season that lead us to the cross 💕