This is my heart...
Welcome to it. <3

Hi, My name is Melia Harrington. Formally Melia Hopkins before I married my best friend just a few short weeks ago! June 28th, 2014
Through this blog, I want to share my heart, my life, ups, downs, struggles, and victories!

Life, in general, is such a hard thing!
And times are changing. Every single day!
As a mom, wife, friend, daughter, I have 33 years on this earth so far to share my story.
How I've made it to where I am today. What I have been through. Things that lift me up, help keep me going and to be an inspiration to others who may be facing the same life issues.

Before I started this blog. I thought, Why?
Why would anyone want to hear what I have to say? But, the great news is this. I have learned to look at life through other peoples eyes. Here I am wondering why anyone might be encouraged by my thoughts and words. Yet, everyday, we look for others to be an encouragement. We wait for others to live different, to share their stories, and to "wow" us.

Guess what? We ARE those people. I look to others for encouragement. But! those same exact people look to others for the same exact thing. So here I am. I have a heart and mind full of stories, experiences, adventures, and so many AMAZING blessings along the way! Today I am where I only PRAYED AND BEGGED daily to be just a few short years ago.
I had dreams, hopes, and wanted to live! I couldn't understand, why I was stuck in this life that I was so miserable in.
I loved A God so much, that claimed to love ME. Yet, I was dying inside!

This, is where I found Him. He promised to love and protect me and give me all of my hearts desires if I just trusted Him. I had no where else to turn. And so I did just that. I trusted in a being I didn't know, someone I couldn't see. Someone I had only heard about growing up. But He promised to love me so much! And I needed someone to love me that deep. I longed for someone to love me that much!
I wanted a relationship with someone who promised to love and protect me. Not hurt me.
I was stuck in a horrible relationship. Daily begging to die, just so I could get out of it! I found the perfect person.
JESUS
First I fell in love with Him. And He lead me to the next love of my life. My husband. Joseph Harrington.

This is my heart... Welcome to it <3