6 Days in Rome – Part 2 - 3-30-23One thing my husband and have learned and are still in the process of learning is to not over-do the sites, fun and intake when it comes to vacation. I know that sound...  Read More

Religious striving is a master of disguise—it can look like obedience, smell like faith, and still leave you sweating at 3 AM over problems God never asked you to solve. The night I finally handed The...  Read More

6 Days in Rome, Italy. Part 1 - February 2023You know what is fabulous? Stepping outside and pushing a button and then an Uber ride shows up within minutes. Our few days in London had come to an end a...  Read More

Faith rarely asks for your résumé; it hands you a hammer and points to dry ground. That’s Noah’s secret. He didn’t wait for clouds—he waited on a word. One century, a million doubts, zero raindrops. S...  Read More

Travel to Europe part 2 – London       3-1-23.Waking up in London, England, I felt classy. This was the day we were scheduled to have tea on the Kensington Palace grounds. We had been watching the wea...  Read More

Faith isn’t a warm blanket; it’s a rip-current. One minute you’re walking on water like Peter, the next you’re tasting saltwater and wondering if you mistook your own ambition for God’s voice. That’s ...  Read More

1st Layover in Portugal  3-1-23Chris and I have been planning for a while, to board a plane or a few and skedaddle across the ocean in celebration of our 25th year of marriage.We need to make sure and...  Read More

"Phelps didn't win because he was dramatically better. He won because he was microscopically better at a thousand invisible things. Stop telling yourself the little things don't matter. Your 1/100th o...  Read More

Let’s get one thing straight: God never called you to play small. He called you to steward. And stewardship isn’t some spiritual busywork or Christian budgeting class. It’s your first assignment after...  Read More

For my husband and I and our children, this is a season where we are relying on the Lord to give us our daily bread. The book of Matthew 6:11 reveals the Lord’s prayer. He was teaching us how to pray....  Read More

If I had a dollar for every time someone misquoted Jesus about money, I could fund a small revival. “Blessed are the poor…” they say, as if Jesus meant poverty itself was holy. He didn’t. But that’s t...  Read More

I once believed that I was an active nasty sinner. I believed this all the while I said I was a Christ follower. It wasn’t until recent years, that I began to understand this.Now before you get your p...  Read More