Nicole Marks

I’ll be offering helpful entrepreneurial tips, change challenges, an inside look at how I goal set, and how change is attainable with faith & consistency. – then join my change challenge coming up January 7, 2019 – February 11, 2019! You’ll get daily emails to motivate and inspire your growth with journaling prompts and/or tips to make those goals stick, your very own custom made Change Challenge Instagram stories to share your personal journey, and weekly YouTube videos to help you along. By watching my videos & joining this challenge, you’re showing me that I’m not alone in this journey and that you’re watching to make sure I get where I’m going.

So, in an effort to stay hip with the changing seasons and to take my mind off of this sweltering heat, I’ve decided to devote an entire blog post to welcome in everyone’s most favorite season of all – fall. Now what kind of fall post would this be if I didn’t include America’s favorite autumn drink? It’s a DIY recipe that requires a little more effort as you’ll have to soak your cashews and blend them to get that creamy consistency, but its rich flavor beats out anything you’ll find in a grocery store. This soup calls for a type of meat broth, but replace it with your favorite vegetable broth and serve with your favorite grainy bread and you’ve got yourself a vegan fall feast!

It’s hurricane season in Hawaii right now and everyone’s going crazy over buying supplies in preparation for the storms to hit: grocery stores are jam-packed with people, pallets of water are being cleared within minutes, and gas stations are lined with cars leading into the streets! At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ ‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. We can prepare and prepare our lives here on earth for our future hopes and dreams, but without accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we’ll not only miss out on His blessings in this lifetime – we’ll miss out on eternal life altogether.

Psalm 3:2-6 How awful it must have been to have had enemy armies after you, plotting to kill and destroy any remembrance of you, hoping that it would hinder God’s plan. With everything that life can throw at us, it can feel like God’s far, far away, just watching us drown in agony. While it is human nature to doubt (it actually strengthens faith), the devil adds worry, panic, and anxiety to the mix to ensure that we don’t grow; that we remain stuck in our doubt long enough to remove all hope that God’s love is real. If you're in need of a friend, just pull up a chair, grab your favorite drink, and let's talk life together.