All posts by Tesha Fritz

I was helping a new student get registered for a test.  I asked the usual questions starting with, “What is your name?”  When she responded, her last name was a very uncommon one that was the same of one of our family friends.  I asked her, half jokingly, was she related to a couple of the people in that family.  Her face changed, she locked her eyes into mine.  “Oh my God!  That’s my father.  Do you know him?”  Then she started to cry as she explained to me that she had never met him, but desperately wanted to get…

Matthew 7:13 – 14 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” This verse has been on my heart so much lately.  I was thinking about it in terms of marriage.   The divorce rates in this country are widely publicized as more than 50% of all marriages in America end up in divorce, but yet the wedding industry is booming.  1/2 of marriage fail the…

The best way to improve or make a life change is to love yourself right where you are.  You have to see your beauty to build on it, or every improvement will be a mask.  You have to embrace your body to transform it or every attempt will be unsuccessful.  You have to love your heart to want to see it healed, or every relationship will be a band-aid not a stitch (a cover not an aid to healing) Right where you are you are in perfect shape to move forward.  Right where you stand you can love yourself enough…

The Bridge to Becoming Brave:  How to Confront Fear with Faith  I would have never described myself as brave.  I’m a calculated risk kind of girl.  I make plans.  I can be flexible, but very rarely would I say that I do things that require bravery.   I just couldn’t see myself as brave. An opportunity came about on our one day of sight seeing while I was in Ireland on a mission trip with my church.  During a briefing for the next day the lead pastor of the church we were working with asked, “How many of you are…

Oprah recently did a special with a few high power guests about the notion of daddyless daughters.  I watched the show and I was moved to tears at some of the testimonies and a few of the follow up reconcilliations. One of the notions that struck me was that I think that a biblical aspect may have been missed.  So for every daughter that may be stuck in bitterness and anger toward their dad, I would like to minister healing and reconciliation in this area from the Word. About a year or so ago I wrote an article that was…