An Open Letter to Christian Leaders

Hello, my name is Alisha and I’m a 25-year-old biracial woman. There’s something I feel I need to say on behalf of myself, black people, and people of colour. Let me start with this, I have gone to church my whole life and I can’t remember ever hearing a message preached on racism or systemic …

An Attitude of Gratitude

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday. Just a friendly reminder that you’ve almost made it through another week, no, matter what’s happening in your life at this moment you’re making it through.  It’s been a little over a year since my last post on here and I’m not going to lie a lot has changed since …

Taking Steps

Happy Wednesday friends! I hope your week is going well so far. Today I want to talk about taking steps when it's scary and you might be unsure. Over the past little bit, there have been a lot of steps taken in my life. Some of them scary and some of them not so scary. …

Lessons From Africa #2: Perspective

Happy Wednesday friends! Welcome back to my blog. Today I will be sharing with you the second lesson I learned while I was in Africa. This lesson goes along with last week's lesson and honestly, God knew that I would need this lesson for when I came back home.  I'm going to be honest here, …

Lessons From Africa #1: First World Problems

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I've posted on here and it's been even longer since I was in Uganda. It's almost been 6 months since I've been there which is just crazy to me. It shows you how fast time goes by. I will say the impact the trip had on me really …

Off To A Rough Start

Happy New Year everyone! I've been away for the last few months and this post will explain a little bit of why. I wanted to be open with everyone about where I've been and what's been going on. If you follow me over on Instagram you may have noticed I've been posting a lot about …

An Unexpected Path

Hello everyone, my trip is coming to a close I’ll be leaving in the next two days to head home. I hope you’ve enjoyed the posts over the last few weeks. I can’t wait to get back to all of you lovely people & share even more with you from my trip. Have you ever …

Modesty

Greetings from Uganda! I’ve been in East Africa now for about a week & I’m sure you guys have been seeing some of my posts on social media. If not please don’t hesitate to follow me over on my Instagram. So today’s topic might be a touchy one for some people. I put this up …

Gratitude

This year I won’t be around for Canadian Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking a lot about gratitude. This past year has been full of change and a lot of great experiences, & it’s really brought me to a place of being thankful. I touched on it last week on my blog …

In The Moment

So this past weekend I did something crazy. I went to two different concerts in one weekend, not something I would recommend because you're definitely going to be exhausted, but I talked about how at every concert I just take a second to take everything in & be in the moment.  https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn-T1qDhXQk/?taken-by=alishajoy What I learned …