White Bean with Mushroom Chicken Soup

White Bean Chicken Soup

I was under the weather the other day and WILD enough it was chilly here in Florida.
HA ... So I thought what better time than today for a Chicken soup in my New Slow Cooker.

This was made just wit the ingredients already in my home .. TOTALLY random and taste DELICIOUS!

I prepared this in less than 10 minutes ...
It was LOVED by all Myself, hubby, teenage daughter and the 3 little ones. =D
1 Mason Jar of leftovers for the next day.

INGREDIENTS:
6 Frozen Chicken Breast
1 Package of Fresh White Mushrooms
2 Cans of White Cannellini Beans (Drained)
Garlic Salt and Powder to taste
Black Pepper to taste
1 Cup of Low Sodium Organic Broth and 1 Cup of Water
Served with Brown Rice and a Fresh Salad

I first placed the Frozen Chicken Breast into the slow cooker for 4 hours - High
I then separated the Chicken Breast & pulled them apart.
Next ALL other ingredients went in and for 2 more hours they cooked - Low
Last setting stayed on Warm till ... Dinner time at 5:30pm.

I will tell if you are working outside the home ... FEEL FREE to put everything inside your Slow Cooker and set it on Low. When you walk in your home it will smell AMAZING and taste delicious!

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Sex - Girls - Trafficking

Boys too.

It's hard to imagine - right here in Pinellas County, Florida.

I ask that you would take "1 Minute" and LIKE and SHARE "The Porch Light" Facebook Page

Non - Profit Organization.

This is a local ministry in Polk County, FL.

2016 is a New Year. It still is very NEW.

I am dedicating myself to be more involved and be a VOICE for these girls ... not just the Woman I was secretly for the past 2 years .. sharing quietly and politely. Nervous with Anxiety what would people think. I was guilty of thinking more and doing less. But HE pulled on my heart <3 never giving up.

Please help bring awareness to Sex Trafficking.

6,138 PEOPLE have liked this PAGE .. WHY not 10,000 !!!

You will be helping to connect this with more EYES.

You do count, you are enough and You are STRONG.

#EndSexTrafficking

#ThePorchLight

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COME OUT ~ PARK on the Beach!
1001 Gulf Blvd Clearwater Beach, FL 33767 United States
Saturday 8:15 AM

Join us for a morning WORK-OUT ... in the Sunshine .. On the Beach ... over the Water .. on the Bridge.  


MEET - TALK - ENJOY a kick start to your WEKEEND the right way. 


PiYO ~~~ BUILDING Our Summer Bodies in the WINTER! 
FREE and this is open to friends and family who are local ... Please feel free to comment below ... contact me or Request to be added into the Event Via Facebook. 

I can not wait to see everyone, this is the beginning of MANY empowering women gatherings. 

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If you have watched me share my journey you have seen there have been Highs and Lows. I work hard and I believe in my family and I believe in MARY. It wasn't always like that. 

We all are given this life and it is OUR DESTINY to decide where we go and how we go. Even when we decide to live FREE.

Over the last 16 months my Journey as a Coach has changed dearly.
This career choice goes much deeper than a number – so much deeper. 

I pour more into personal development everyday.

I have authentic relationships with REAL Girlfriends heart emoticon
I am closer to my Father and more intimate with my Faith.
I am more confident in my own SKIN.
I believe in DREAMS and actually RUN after them.
I am the Healthiest I have ever been in all my years.

CHANGE
Does happen.

CHANGE
Is a choice.

ANYTHING
Is possible.

I am SO excited and EAGER for the next month of March to begin for my TEAM. I am opening up a behind the scenes CHAT tonight @ 8:30 PM/ET.
I will share with you DEEPER details about Coaching - What I do grin emoticon
TIME & Flexibility
My Income … Now Earning MORE than I was in Corporate America.
FREE Vacations (Like my Cruise in 12 Nights)
TEAM Culture 

If you have any doubts that you might be missing an opportunity to do MORE for yourself and for your family .. Jump on this call.

Private Message me or Comment below…Don’t wait 14 months like ME. heart emoticon

**Beachbody does not guarantee any level of success or income from the Team Beachbody Coach Opportunity. Each Coach’s income depends on his or her own efforts, diligence, and skill. See our Statement of Independent Coach Earnings located on the Coaches Corner on TeamBeachbody.com for the most recent information on our Coaches’ actual incomes.

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IfAnything

Friday, February 12th while in Jamaica we were driving home from the jungle, and I asked our Driver to take us to a Children's Orphanage on the way back to our hotel. I am not sure WHY I asked this. Maybe curiosity? Or maybe my heart was just hungry for more.
I don't know. 

He droves us into the Jamaica National Children's Home.
Immediately my eyes were drawn to the tall barb-wire fences and locked down gates. 

However, on one of the buildings there was a beautiful blue mural painted with children running in the clouds with laughter and smiles. It is beautiful!
We left barely making it inside and then we were turned away from visiting because we were in shorts. I left my business card and with contact information for their website. I left wanting more. 

............................................................................

That evening I told Mike ... God wants us to go back ... He wants us to Love on these kids. He pretty much thought I was kinda crazy ... HAHA .. But I told him, "Mike, God told me this is OUR time. Do this together."
I have never heard Him speak so clearly and so quickly in all my life.
But his words were - Just GO - GO Now. 

So we did just that.
We barely knew where to find the goodies in town. We faced a little battle trying to purchase so many gifts for the Kids .. but He provided ... we did not prepare the Children's Home that we were coming ... there was just no time. 

But we SHOWED UP. 

We arrived pretty much a little hot mess. Clueless how to explain our calling.
I introduced Mike and I to the Director of the home and he said, "Talk to me ... tell me who you are and why you are here?" 

I would be lying to you if I told you I wasn't a little nervous ... I was a LOT nervous, but more than anything I was PUMPED UP ... I had made it this far! No Turning BACK! I didn't know if he was going to let us in - but I was going to try my hardest. 

After a few minutes of telling him who we were ... and that we were parents to 4 children and honestly had a LOVE & Passion for children and the Lord ... he welcomed us in. 

Praise GOD!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAY grin emoticon

We learned there are 88 children living in the first Children's Home.
(Ages 5-18, cared for by 4 women.)

There are 28 Children with Disabilities living in one home.
(Ages 10 - 30+, cared for by 1 women and 2-3 volunteers. )
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here are 200 Children whom are Deaf living in the last Children's Home.
All on One Campus....surrounded by garbage and waste. These roads are very very difficult to drive down. 

I want to share with you the reason we decided to visit with the Disability Children. This was all due to Mabry. She told us when she would visit Honduras that no one would visit these children ... no one wanted to spend time with them. On this Saturday as we parked we saw 6 or 7 cars in the visiting center for the other Children, but no visitors for the Disability. One of the Volunteers in the home told me there were only 2 children that had parents who would visit maybe once or twice a year. 

Walking into this one story building Mike and I were nervous and completely clueless to what we would see, hear or experience. We just opened our hearts and prayed for them to feel our love. The children and adults suffer from severe mental and or physical disabilities. Almost all of them could not speak. One of the best moments of our day was when a car drove by blaring reggae music .. the children bounced their bodies and their legs in the wheel chairs and their eyes came ALIVE. They truly LOVE music! 

After spending the day seeing their home ... hugging, sitting with them, rubbing their backs, holding their hands, swinging, and throwing balls back and forth we had to say good-bye. I struggled big time with this. With tears rolling down my cheek I slowly said good-bye. I hugged all the volunteers. 

Walking to our truck 3 children were holding onto the doors they couldn't talk ... but they knew we were leaving. Mike and I slowly led them back to their home to their family...and we drove away. 

Sometimes ANYTHING is possible when we just let go and allow Him to MOVE us. I recently finished a book called 'Anything' and this read has truly changed me from the inside out. I pray that this is just the beginning for Mike and I.

Jamaica National Children's Home - www.oocities.org
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Are you Hungry?

Do you have a Heart for HEALTH?

Are you HUNGRY for more ? 

Then there is greatness in you .. and you should let it out!  

Are you giddy when you step in the kitchen?
Do you secretly LOVE to sweat 😜
Maybe even a Food GuRu? 🍌🌶🍆🍉

Then Coaching could be for you!!!
Your Power.
Your Hunger for more.
Your Wild Goals ... Yep those "hush-hush" ones you never say out loud.
I have them toooo!!!!

Career Girls
Stay at Home Mom's
Multi-tasking Women ... You are Rock-Stars! 

I want 5 Women to join me in the month of February... who are ready to bind together and bring their love ~ their passion ~ to serve others into my Next Challenge Group. 

It will be packed with Power - and - Pure drive to be more and see more change in this world.

GOOD Change!!

Live your life with your Drive and PASSION ...  this is MORE than a feeling ... Don't wait any longer!! 

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You are Wonderfully made.

This is my Mabry.

I just finished reading a blog post from FBCHomes.org. A testimony about unplanned pregnancies and how YOU are fearfully and wonderfully made. I can not express how this hit home for me.

Truly want to cry ... Happy tears heart emoticon ... of hope.

So I share my own journey with you. 

I found out I was pregnant with my oldest daughter at the young age of 15. It was August of my Sophomore year in High School and we had just returned back from Summer. After the 3rd pregnancy test in less than 10 minutes, and with my MOM in my bathroom ... We both had to stop the "denial" ................. I was pregnant. 

Right in that moment I understood - I was a MOM, but I was only 15.
I was just a child.

I remember feeling ashamed, alone, uncontrollable pain and FEAR ... of everything and of everyone.
I was hurting.
I thought I was alone, but GOD was right there - Holding my HAND and saying, "You got this Mary. WE got this." 

So after many people encouraged me to choose abortion ... Or move to Orlando and finish my pregnancy in secrecy then give up the Baby ... I decided ... NO. I was going to have my Baby. I was going to stay home and finish my Sophomore year. I had to find strength - and - I had to grow up. I believed that I was not only going to finish my Junior year. But, I was going to WALK across that stage with my class of 2000. And I did!!!

See ... I became a Christian very young, but my relationship with my Father had been steered and directed in a different direction. I found myself lost. My faith as a teenager had faded and I allowed the WORLD to influence my choices. Jesus had been thrown on the back-burner.

Today, I remember specifically thanking GOD that he blessed me with a baby to be delivered during the Summer. Exactly - 3 weeks after my sophomore year and Mabry came on her due date. On HIS timing. I can smile because I remember that dearly. She was 8.4 and 20 1/2 inches long ... and oh my goodness ......... she was BEAUTIFUL heart emoticon

IF you are reading this and have found yourself in a position or a place where you do not know what you are going to do - OR - where you are going to live ... or how you might feel with a new baby or this pregnancy. Please know you have options and there is HOPE. You are loved right where you are today. Love Mary

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