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Finally!

We have waited so long for this day to come…

Our tickets have been purchased, we are finally going to Ireland!

It has been more than 10 years since God put this longing in our hearts to go as missionaries and serve the people in Ireland. It has taken a lot of time, a fair amount of learning and growing, and whole ton of patience development, and we are finally standing on the door step…

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Calm in the Chaos

Calm in the Chaos

Do you ever look around your house, or your life, and think “How is there so much chaos?!” I do. There are days were all I long for is more peace.

Some days that looks like a clean, organized, clutter-free house. Others it is simply wanting to live at a slower pace. Regardless, I have found myself in a season of life that is less “obligated”, yet somehow “busier”, and I all keep thinking is…

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Women in Ministry

I have been thinking about this for some time. I have been trying to put my response into words that adequately convey my heart on the matter. There has been much debate within the church about the role of women as pastors, elders, and leaders, particularly of late. I think I’ll save the Biblical debate for another time, but right now, I want to talk about what people aren’t really digging into.…

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In the Silence

Silence.

It is something I have wrestled with. The feeling of not hearing from God is hard for me. I am a communicator. I need to talk things out. I need feedback.

On various occasions, I have struggled with the silence. I have wondered if I was doing something wrong. I wondered if God was displeased with me. I wondered if I had wandered too far off and how to get back. I wondered if He was…

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My Worst Enemy

Y’all know that saying, “I’m my own worst enemy”? Yeah, sometimes that feels so incredibly true.

I tend to the be the person that overthinks, and over-complicates everything until I end up feeling overwhelmed. Which in turn leaves me stuck, drowning in the stagnation left behind by the futility of using distraction to try to avoid fear and pain, ultimately arriving right on time for the…

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God is AMAZING!

It is one of the most humbling, amazing, and faith building experiences to have a need so great you cannot possibly fill it on your own. God continues to blow my mind with His faithfulness.

When we signed up to go to Argentina, we had $0 in the bank to put toward funding a $10,000 mission trip. Here we are, only a few months later, seeing God providing in a BIG way!

Y’all, WE ARE GOING…

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Round Two

We FINALLY got the approval to proceed with our son’s second surgery!

It has been a long, uphill battle. We went through 3 rejections from the insurance company before we finally got everything approved to be able to complete the process that we started back in November with his first surgery.

So as we prepare for round two, we are contending and believing for a smooth surgery, that his…

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Life isn't Fair, and it's a Good Thing.

Life isn’t Fair, and it’s a Good Thing.

This is something we are trying to teach our children, and in the process, we are learning it on a deeper level.

Being concerned with “fairness”, what someone else has/gets, or what God is doing for anyone else, is comparison and it steals your peace and your joy. Ultimately, it leads only to bitterness, discontent, and ingratitude.

Another person’s blessing has no bearing on your life. It…

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Here We Go Again

Here We Go Again

It has been 3 years since we went on our first mission trip to Argentina. It has been 3 years since we saw God make a way where there was none. It has been 3 years since we fell in love with another country and came home praying for the day we would get to go back and share that experience with our children.

We are super excited to finally have that opportunity! In June, we will be joining an…

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Breaking Open

(Post 5 of 5)

I was 28 when I gave up again.

I had spent so long just trying to keep my head above water, trying not to feel the pain of the past, the sting of the lies, or acknowledge the cliff that we were still barreling along toward, that I lost sight of the hope that God promised.

In wrestling with my pain, feeling isolated and alone, I became consumed with the lie that I couldn’t…

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Treading Water

For a decade my husband and I walked with the scars, fears, shame and weight of our wounds. We got married 6 months after we got back together. It was 8 months after God had broken me out of the prison I had created for myself. I would spend the next 10 years in bondage to all that I had done, all I had experience, and the lies I was still carrying.

Steve and I had done well. We built a life…

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So I Wandered

My relationship with my husband had a really rough start. We were both so lost and broken, and we were incredibly destructive to ourselves and each other.

Often when I tell people that we have been together since I was 15 and he was 18 their immediate response is “Awwww high school sweet hearts!” Which is often followed by a laugh from me, and if we are both there, a knowing look at each other…

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Distraction and Deception

That day feels like so long ago and so far away now. I was 8 years old. I was laying in the bathtub filled with water that had been hot, but was now cold because I had been in there so long. My face was submerged in the water and I was punching myself in the head, as hard as I could. My mind was screaming all of the lies and labels I had received about myself. 

“You’re so stupid!” “You’re…

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The Day God Saved My Life

The Day God Saved My Life

I woke up early this morning and began thinking about my life. I was thanking God for the beauty of His love that is woven throughout my testimony. Yes, there was heartache, pain, ugliness, loneliness and even despair, but through it all, He was with me. His hand was on me. He protected me from worse, and He redeemed me. My testimony is a long story, some of it you have heard, but today…

I…

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Unity

This is a subject that has been on my heart for a long time now.

Disunity steals, kills, and destroys. It steals joy, peace, and fellowship. It kills relationships and tramples on identity. It destroys the beauty of what could be, it prevents us from experiencing the best that God has for us, it devastates people, and I honestly believe it grieves God’s heart.

Division is permeating our…

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I was at an incredible training even over the summer. One of the many amazing speakers said something that had a profound impact on the way I feel about sharing my faith.

Y’all know I love Jesus, I am not shy about that. I have no problem asking how I can pray for people, or telling them how much Jesus loves them, but her question got me thinking about the pervasive lies that twist our…

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2018 Election...

2018 Election…

My heart is a little sad today.

I have been reflecting on what I have been seeing this week, and trying to put words to all of the thoughts and emotions.

I have seen so much hatred, and verbal vomit on social media the last few days.

Instead of encouraging one another to simply vote according to their own conscience, it has been an onslaught of fear-mongering, verbal abuse, gross generalizations,…