Courage – Page 11 – Melissa Schlies

What To Do With All Those Leftover (Feeling)s

If you’re one of those people who love Thanksgiving food (turkey, mashed potatoes, pie, etc.), then you know one of the best parts of the holiday is the leftovers. Some of my favorite memories of Thanksgiving involve eating pie for dinner, or making late night turkey sandwiches because everyone’s still up. Not to mention, eating roasted veggies with fried eggs for breakfast. Add a cup of coffee, and that’s what I call a good morning. Thanksgiving leftovers are the best—at least when we’re talking about food. But in my experience, food hasn’t always been the only leftover from the holiday. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T00:32:15+00:00November 27th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Fear, Food, Health, Mental Health, Uncategorized|Comments Off

In Search of the Perfect Picture

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon More than any other social media, Instagram is to blame for any amount of time I waste in my life. Ok, any wasted time is my fault—but Instagram is usually the cause. Photo’s of my friend’s adventures or Insta-stories of people living in cool places (check out @GirlinFlorence if you want a fabulous taste of Italy)—all of it, sucks me in. Almost daily I find myself mindlessly scrolling through photo’s I have already seen, and I have to tell myself to put the phone down. Beautiful [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T00:49:38+00:00November 6th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Hope, Identity, perseverance, Purpose, Success|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead November 2, 2017

Have I mentioned, I love fall? There is something about the leaves changing color, and the weather getting cooler that seems to bring out my inner Martha Stewart (that I didn’t even know I had). All of a sudden, I want to light candles, bake pumpkin bread, and knit—all while drinking my favorite fall flavored latte! Fall is fabulous. But as much as it also makes me want to hike among the red and yellow trees, there is work for all of us to do. There’s our jobs, our responsibilities, and for some of us—there are changes we are anticipating [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T00:51:50+00:00November 2nd, 2017|Categories: Change, Courage, Food, Good Books, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off

When We’re The Answer

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 It’s a truth I stumbled upon by accident. One I said yes to without even knowing it was being offered. It is a truth I believe we need to speak about. And a truth that our world needs us badly to act upon. The truth is this: Sometimes, we’re the answer. In those times when we wish our phone would beep with a text from a friend or even a distant relative—anyone—to tell us we’re loved. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T00:53:54+00:00October 30th, 2017|Categories: Change, Courage, Health, Mental Health, Purpose|Comments Off

Learn: How I got Unstuck

To best appreciate this post, read this first. The hot July sun tried to pierce through the trees, as we made our way down the trail, only the tree cover was thick enough to keep us cool. My sister and brother-in-law were visiting us from Massachusetts, and we were showing them one of our favorite places, Ricketts Glen State Park. At this point, we had hiked the trails that pass by the majority of the waterfalls in the park, but we wanted to make a stop at Adams Falls as well. We walked down the path to the bottom, where [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T00:56:04+00:00October 26th, 2017|Categories: Change, Courage, Faith, Freedom, Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance|Comments Off

Stuck

Six years ago, on a hot, sunny Saturday over Labor Day weekend, I stood at the top of a waterfall. I stared at the cool pool of water collecting just before spilling over the edge, and debated sticking my feet in. I didn’t hesitate long. Tony had gone further down the trail with his camera, to try and capture the waterfall from the bottom. I could see him from where I was standing, and knew I had a least a few minutes before it would be time for us to head back to camp. So, I took off my hiking [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T01:10:40+00:00October 23rd, 2017|Categories: Change, Courage, Fear, Freedom, Hope|Comments Off

The Changes We Don’t Want

There are the changes in life that make our hearts feel like a firework soaring into the sky on the Forth of July, about to burst into flame. Tangibly, they look like acceptance letters, job promotions, marriage proposals, or even simply being asked out over text by that person you can’t get off your mind. These changes are the simple, sometimes long-awaited moments that send our lives into new and wonderful directions. But then, there are those other changes. The ones anxiety plagues us over. The ones we pray will never happen. Yet the ones that at some point in [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T19:24:30+00:00October 16th, 2017|Categories: Change, Courage, Faith, grief, Hope|Comments Off

Post 100

This post is my one-hundredth post on MelissaSchlies.com. 100 feels like a very big number. Yet, I haven’t even been blogging a year yet. Some bloggers post more often than I do and pass this mark a lot sooner. Other bloggers have been in the game for while. A few have even surpassed the decade mark. Their followers are in the five and six digits, where mine are still hard to calculate. As a newish blogger, it doesn’t take a lot to feel small. When you think about it, there are probably millions of bloggers world wide. This means that [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T19:52:22+00:00September 4th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Hope, perseverance, Success|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead August 10, 2017

As we begin to close out the first full week of August, the world has begun saying the end of summer is on it’s way. Stores have been advertising “back to school” sales for a few weeks now, telling us the long, warm days of summer are numbered. But here, you will find none of that! Here, for this month we are all about the idea of travel and escape. Monday I began to share with you a story from a trip we took to Ireland, and today, I am sharing a favorite memory from my first trip to Chile. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:04:36+00:00August 10th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Fear, Good Books, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Travel|Comments Off

Courage After Failure

Two weeks before I moved into college, I was in my first car accident. That night had been like any summer evening for a teenager living in a small town. There was nothing to do. So, I decided to take my younger sisters to get ice cream. My parents let me have the car, and for a reason I don’t remember, we headed to the grocery store instead of the Friendly’s down the street. At the store we picked out a half gallon of rocky road and a few bottles of soda. We checked out, then my sisters and I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:09:39+00:00July 31st, 2017|Categories: Courage, Failure, Fear, Success|Comments Off

What To Do With All Those Leftover (Feeling)s

In Search of the Perfect Picture

Love Learn Lead November 2, 2017

When We’re The Answer

Learn: How I got Unstuck

Stuck

The Changes We Don’t Want

Post 100

Love Learn Lead August 10, 2017

Courage After Failure

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