I am tired, but…

As I endeavored to make sense of my own feelings and prepared to share my heart with my church family this past Sunday, these are the words that came to me. The video is a […]

Home Alone: Living Through a Pandemic

  Thursday I cried. These were the tears that threatened to fall for weeks. But because of busy-ness, preparations and doing all the things to meaningfully connect in the age of social distancing, they hadn’t […]

It is time to celebrate! All. Year. Long.

  Turn off the Netflix and enjoy a night out on the town! Throw off the comfy sweats and put on your dancing shoes. You only have one life. Live it – starting today!   […]

Addicted to Busyness: Freedom Lesson #1

I am the queen of doing too much! Maybe you can relate?   -Great ideas flood my mind ALL THE TIME! -I tend to overcommit, as part of my people-pleaser complex (it’s been a slow […]

Girl, Get Your Word

THRIVE That was my word for 2019. It was a promise and an invitation, anchored and embedded in John 15:1-8. Believe me, I had my share of low points and disappointments in 2019. But they […]

A Season of Goodbyes

Sometimes I feel crazy at how quickly things start connecting for me. It’s like I spend weeks pondering something. Then, SUDDENLY, it is like He presses the download button and it all becomes clear (or […]

The Beauty of Death

  Not all death is beautiful.   But it could be. Well, maybe not at first. Because some of it is caused by senseless violence or systems of injustice. At times, it takes the innocent […]

A Testimony in 3 Parts: Part 2

Part 2: Grace Period   I’m a project-oriented type of person. I appreciate definitive starts and stops. Marking the end of something is really important for me. Mainly because if I don’t, I have the […]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Nancy lied! (Nancy is my mother by the way.) Okay maybe not “lied”. I think she willingly misled me as a kid, though. I remember countless Christmases when she would pull out the recipes only […]

A Testimony in 3 Parts: Part 1

Part 1: When All You’ve Got Is His Word How do you go back to life as usual after receiving a rhema word straight from God to you? What are you to do with a […]