We Have This Hope…

We Have This Hope…

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure…” Hebrews 6:19 When I was pregnant with my daughter, 28 years ago, there was a moment in time when no one thought that she would survive.  Doctors shook their head sadly as they relayed the...
Home

Home

It was a horrible dream.  I had flown somewhere. I was somewhere unknown and unfamiliar to me and we landed in a devastating storm.  I remember peering out the windows of the airplane and I gasped sharply as I saw the airplane was submerged under the water...
I Wear Jewelry Every Day

I Wear Jewelry Every Day

Her name was Lorna.  She was full of vitality and  lived life with abandonment. She was beautiful,  grace-filled and loved her family relentlessly.   Bold, fierce, passionate, soft and incredibly humble.  Lorna was teeny tiny in stature but a...
It’s Okay If It’s Not Okay

It’s Okay If It’s Not Okay

I believe in living a life of gratitude.  I absolutely know that it’s important to look around you and to be thankful for the things that you have. But this is what I am learning these days in my life.  I am learning that it’s important not to ignore the...
Begin Again

Begin Again

The weird thing about publishing my first book and shutting down my church in the same week, is that it feels like the doctor gave me an arm I have been waiting  my entire life for but in the same breath told me that he had to cut off my leg. It’s a crazy...
We Had Hoped

We Had Hoped

They were devastated.  The men walked in silence as they made their way to Emmaus.    Their hearts were breaking and they knew that their lives would never again be the same.  Jesus had just been brutally crucified. One of them broke the...