Hi everyone! I am mostly writing today to ask you to pray for me and my family.  Tomorrow morning, I, my brother and his wife, and my father are all heading to KS to visit my uncle Jim (Papa’s brother)…

As many of you know, I recently went up to Kodiak, Alaska for my sister’s wedding.  It was absolutely wonderful.  Freezing and raining during the actual ceremony, and the week before might have been the busiest week of my life…

What comes to mind when you think of living in fear?  Do you picture something like this?     Somewhere that this is what you see everyday?    That is what I have always thought of.  Somewhere war-torn and filled…

I have no words today.  Perhaps I will tomorrow, and will give you a full update, but today I am just too full of the music and the heart of the Lord.  So I invite you to just bask with…

It’s funny how tenacious our enemy is.  Just when you think everything’s going great and that you’ve conquered all of your demons and are solidly walking in the Spirit, a wrench invariably pops up.   Two days ago a wrench…

This week has been all about getting back into the groove of normalcy (whatever that is), for a whole month, lol.  My brother and new sister-in-law have settled into married life beautifully with a new little addition that keeps things…

As most of you know last month I drove to North Carolina to attend the Center for Intercultural Training (CIT).  There I was privileged to participate with 3 other singles, 15 married couples and their children in an amazing cross-cultural…

  “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name…” the immortal words of Jesus ring in my ear as the valedictorian of a high school in South Carolina begins to recite the Lord’s prayer in protest to the…