and daycare mama to ten more little ones.
My days are busy, my arms are full,
and my heart rejoices in Jesus.
When you have to say goodbye
I'm going to be completely honest here. I don't always respond well to change. Almost never, in fact. Even when the change is a good, God-ordained change. My firstborn son left for college last week, and I had prepared myself for a difficult goodbye. I knew it was...
When your life is too messed up to fix
Have you ever felt that your life was too much of a mess to ever be fixed? A couple weeks ago, I turned my daycare kiddos loose with a few packages of new sidewalk chalk. They took great delight in "decorating" the front of my daycare shed. In a matter of minutes, the...
When God doesn’t give grace
"I could never go through something like that." "What if it happens to me?" "How do you cope? I'd never be able to. I'm not strong enough." "I don't know how you do it. I wouldn't be able to keep going." The aftermath of a broken home is a painful place. In the...
Seeds of Salvation in Farmer’s Valley
What do a horse, an Army surplus Chevy, and a travelling evangelist have in common? The answer may surprise you. God used all three of these to orchestrate the salvation story of my life--to bring me to Jesus. It all started in a little community in the rolling hills...
