Hello 👋🏾.

It’s been more than a minute, I know, since I’ve updated this website. Life has definitely been interesting these past few years. (Years?! Can you believe it’s 2025 already?! Yes, I can, because I’m very tiiiiirrrrrreeeeeed 😊.) I just wanted to take a moment to share with you all where I’ve been.)

When I first started The Chosen Portion, I had a passion for both God and education. My goal was to share as much as I could about God and Christianity, and to freely give to others the knowledge God had allowed me to receive. (To really read my heart on this, click here.) My intentions were good, but that was a few years ago and my life has totally changed since then.

For starters, I am now the proud mama of a beautiful, healthy, and incredibly smart little boy.

I am also divorced.

Needless to say, the past few years have been hard. On one hand, I received the one thing in life I’d always wanted and spent the majority of my adult life praying for. A baby. God, in His faithfulness, made me a mother. But on the other hand, the marriage I spent nearly two decades in, pouring into, fighting for, praying over, and giving all I had to did not survive. It. Hurt. And it took more than a few minutes to process. I felt blessed and cursed at the same time. (Don’t worry. I know now that I’m truly blessed, indeed.) But things have changed, and I don’t have the time I once did to run the website the way I used to. My life has changed, therefore my mission has, too.

I’m now a homeschool mom.

The things you will see on this website now reflect that mission. But prayer is that it will continue to be a blessing to whoever could use it. I’m only one person, though, and I’m managing a lot. So forgive me if updates don’t come as routinely as they did before. I’m just somewhere taking care of my child and doing all of the motherly things that requires.

— LaShanda Callahan