Author: Erica Wyatt

Wife since 2004. Mother since 2006. Two of the best and most important decisions and moments of my life. By day, I educate 10-12 year-old boys and girls and, in turn, am often educated BY them. The creative in me, however, yearns to be set free. Enter photography. Our pastor has long been discussing with us how we can see to it that no one fails to receive the grace of God, and I've long been searching for what exactly my gifts are that I can use to serve God. Teaching was not exactly fulfilling me or those around me in the way it seemed it should. As a mother who feels one of the most important things I can do for my two daughters is be a happy wife in a happy marriage, I've long been drawn to others who are in happy, faith-centered marriages. I felt led to use my gift of photography and written word to share the marriages I've been drawn to with others so that no one fails to receive this gift.

With Grit & Grace: Rise Up & Worship

Kurtis and Brittany were ready to welcome little Emmett Allen into the folds of their family. They were excited. They were imagining how Emmett would fit into their family dynamic. They were making plans for moving the rooms of their other 3 children so that there was room. Let's be honest, they were making plans for how their King bed could hold another kid. They were ready to spread and share their love to another little soul, to another part of them.

He’s My Person….For Better, For Worse

You know that clip in Gray's Anatomy when Yang says that Meredith is her person? They're sitting at a bar after work discussing why Yang told Meredith about being pregnant in the first place when Cristina reveals that Meredith was the person she put down as her emergency contact person. Later on, when Burke is … Continue reading He’s My Person….For Better, For Worse →

Building My Own House

This week I was blessed enough to go out to dinner with some friends and enjoy time just being Erica. You know what I mean, right? For a full two and a half hours, I wasn't Mom. I wasn't Wife. Heck, even though I was with fellow educators, I wasn't even Mrs. Wyatt. I enjoyed my time out with friends and headed home in the best of moods to see my husband whom I'd barely seen the previous three days due to work and friends. 

When I walked in the house, he was snuggled up in the double chair with our youngest. He was fast asleep. I walked upstairs to put my things away and came back. I leaned over the chair thinking of how much I missed him so I could give him a kiss on the cheek. 

"Oh my gosh! Get off of me. Just leave me alone!"

Yep. Those were the words I was met with when I tried to lean in and kiss my husband whom I missed so much. To say I was perturbed may be an understatement.

"Really? Whatever. I'm going upstairs," I replied as I made myself not stomp up the stairs

Looking Back to Look Forward

Ten years ago on Father's Day 2008 she gave this shadow box to Bro. JD with fishing lures from his grandfather, the newspaper clipping about that grandfather, and a note from her. The note talked about how JD has a motorcycle but isn't a biker, has a black belt but isn't a fighter, writes all the time but isn't a published writer, has tools but isn't a mechanic or carpenter, and has fishing gear but isn't a fisherman. Instead, she said, he is a fisher of men. His pleasing personality is the lure I'm certain. She then recounted Paul's words in 1 Corinthians to illustrate JD through her eyes.

1 Corinthians: 9:20-23

"To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law - though I myself am not under the law - to win those under the law. To those who are without the law, like one without the law - though I am not without God's law but under the law of Christ - to win those without the law. To the weak, I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some. Now I do all this because of the gospel, so that I may share in the blessings."