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ISOLATION HAS PURPOSE


LADIES, God will give us a season of ISOLATION to prepare us for a season of PROCLAMATION.

To receive that proclamation we may have to dwell in a silent season to be tuned to sensitively hear God’s STILL SMALL VOICE

Faithfulness is done in ALL seasons of life!! 

Even in isolation.
Even in silence.
Even in grief.
Even in suffering.
Even in darkness.

God’s promise remains and endures forever.
Don’t QUIT, your faithfulness will reap VICTORY.

Imperfectly Yours,
Katie

WHO LIKES TRAFFIC

I doubt anyone has ever taken a day off work to avoid traffic. If people did that everyone would be out of a job!! So, what do we do?

Well, there’s nothing we can do about traffic. We have to wait it out and ignite our inner patience. Some will try to speed up the process and unintentionally cause wrecks.

I get it. We want what we want when we want it and how we want, but, like life, it just isn’t that way.

What is it in your life that you are desiring to achieve or attain? What have you decided to take every day off from because life’s traffic has discouraged you?

Pressure makes the diamond.
There’s no EASY way out. 

We can’t avoid traffic.
WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT!!

Stop waiting for when the traffic comes and start accepting the unavoidable. Prepare your mind by deciding to embrace the journey and every traffic jam ahead.

Change your perspective.
That’s where the preparation starts.

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Imperfectly Yours,
Katie

I GOT YOUR SIX


Hubs: Hey, let’s see you do the POST course.
 Me: I mean, I’m good. I don’t even know it.
Hubs: Come on!! I’ll talk you through it. You got this!!

60 ROUNDS LATER…

Hubs: WOW!!
 Me: How’d I do for my first try?
Hubs: You shot a 105!!
 Me: Is that pretty good?
Hubs: You have no idea how good of a shot you are.

Quick background, in order for an officer to pass the POST firearms qualification course they must fire through the full course at least four times, that’s 240 total rounds. They must achieve an average score of not less than 96 out of a possible 120.

I’m not an officer, but I’m the wife of LEO. I’m constantly learning the field of law enforcement because it is a HUGE part of my life and knowledge is empowering. Being able to go to the range with my husband helps not just him, but us grow stronger TOGETHER. 

I don’t wear a badge, but I will always stand with our thin blue line family. Whether that means being there at the end of a hard day to pray or coach them on the track to prepare for the requirements ahead, I’ll do it. 

This life is not for the faint of heart. It’s about standing up for what is just and speaking up for those who have been denied their voice. It’s about protecting those who have lost hope and serving others in need.

To my husband, I’ve always got your 6.

Imperfectly Yours,
Katie

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   With Health & Fitness Love,
      -Coach Katie

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ONE DECADE LATER


We all have the moment that rocks our world and changes our perspective. We all have a moment that we can look back to and be like, “WOW!! You need to get it together.”
Mine was at 21-years-old in 2011…

It was nearly one year after my third sibling had passed away and I was giving away the best of me for the worst of the world. I was doing what others said I should and I had lost all care in the world.

So, as the impulsive ADHD brain of mine would have it — I signed up for my first marathon and never stopped running.

Since then, life has been FAR FROM easy. From other losses of family, to the near loss of my daughter, to the health issues of my own, and to the move that nearly broke me — life just keeps on going.


No matter what happens in life time is never going to stop. Even when we take our last breath and years pass by we can either choose to be a person worth remembering or one we ourselves would rather forget.

Once upon a time I wanted to be forgotten. It’s a dark place to want that for yourself. To have the need to be rejected because rejection has become your normal. It sucks.
However, keep going.
On the worst day, keep going.
Imperfectly Yours,
Katie

WIN OR WHEN

Stop living in the WHEN && live in the NOW!!

When we have a house…
When we have a better house…
When we have a car…
When we have a better car…
When we have enough money…
When we have more money…
When we have Have HAVE HHAAVVEE!!

I know that many times I stop myself from pursuing new goals based on the circumstances of my NOW. However, maybe I lost a WIN waiting on the WHEN!!

We have to start pursuing the NOW moments because if we don’t — WHEN may never come. If we can change the perspective in our mind — we can see it’s already been WON.

Besides, NOW is WON backwards.

Imperfectly Yours,
Katie

SEVENTEEN YEARS SINCE THE CALL


06•01•2004
RING…RING…RING…
   [Caller ID: Ron Brown]
   I picked up the phone and ran outside.
      Me: Hey Bubba!!
      Man: Uhhhh, is this Katie?
      Me: Yyyeeessss…
      Man: Can I speak to your mom?
            At 14-years-old, I knew…

It’s been 17 years since I picked up the phone and you weren’t on the other end. 

Being born on Valentine’s Day has always had a “cool” factor, but being born on your birthday has been the real honor. As I’ve gotten older, without you, I’ve thought about how you would feel or what you were doing in the same age moments. However, today is surreal. 

Today, when I woke up I knew I had surpassed a moment in time that you never would. I became older than you did and that — that leaves me with a sour feeling of grief, again.

You will always be my big brother.
I love you, Ron Brown, always.

Love,
Your Baby Sister

A POLICE WIFE

“Stay safe. Come home. I love you.”

I never knew just how different life would be when my husband took his oath. It’s not a path for the faint hearted, but it’s one of the most honorable and humbling journeys I have ever faced. My husband is absolutely my hero.

Imperfectly Yours,
Katie

A Police Wife
By: Ashley Hoppa, Wife of a Police K9 Officer, 2013

I don't wear a uniform.
I don't have a badge.
I have never been sworn in.
Nor have taken an oath, with raised right hand.
My thin blue line is different indeed.
The thin blue line I walk, is from behind the scenes.
I stand behind you, so proud and true.
For you are a member of an elite few.
You have sworn to do a duty.
To uphold the law.
To honor, serve, and protect. That is your call.
While the burden you bear is great.
Mine is nonetheless.
We both carry a very heavy weight.
With hugs and kisses, I smile and I say,
Have a good night, all the while hiding my silent fright.
For every day at 10-41. My burden has yet again begun.
My heart goes with you, and all your brothers and sisters in blue.
I pray you all will return at 10-42.
How do you do it they say? How can you live life that way?
How can you not worry? How can you not fear?
My answer to them is perfectly clear.
Of course I worry. Of course I fear. Always wondering, if end of watch is near.
But this is my duty, I say. It's just what we do. 
You see, I too bleed blue.
I am proud to say that I live this life. 
Because of the man I love.
I became a Police Officer's Wife.
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