Author: nicole

Perhaps the single greatest thing you can do to maintain your mental health is to surround yourself with a circle of personal cheerleaders. Thank God for good friends…

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” –Maya Angelou

Editor’s note: Nicole Phillips will continue to write her column after she moves in May to Ohio with her family.

My family is about to go through a period of major upheaval.

My husband, as many of you know, is a basketball coach and most recently got to run all over the court in pure unbridled joy after the North Dakota State ... Read More

Some days I need a Higher Power and some days I NEED a Higher Power.

Holy Spirit, I pray you come alive in me and make me the kind of wonderful, loving person I am when I’ve had a full night of sleep and a hot cup of coffee.

“Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -St. Francis of Assisi

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” -Jackie Robinson

I’m starting to understand what people mean when they say “I’m scared, but it’s a good scared.”

Sometimes I think God moves so slowly and then all of a sudden I struggle just to keep up with Him.

“There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time ... Read More