This summer I read a book that has easily become one of my top five. Soul Keeping, by John Ortberg, has stirred up stuff in me like few books ever have.  Its premise is that I’ve been given only one soul, Jesus said it’s worth more than the whole world and I MUST watch over and care for it with great…

Last summer our family took an amazing vacation to the Pacific Northwest.   I’d never spent a significant amount of time up there, I’d been through Seattle’s airport but never north of there – OH MY WORD.  It’s like everything amazing all rolled into one place ~ ocean, farms, towns, mountains, lakes.  And I think…

I know you all aren’t here for a weather report, but in case you were wondering, it’s snowing like crazy in Colorado.   We are in the middle of what the Weather Channel is calling an “Arctic Outbreak” and our final fall colors are all but gone and replaced with bitter cold and low gray skies.…

The other morning one of my boys was completely gripped with fear.   He was convinced of certain bugs and large living things in our basement.  I tried the super compassionate response of “Seriously, son?”, but messing with him wasn’t going to help.  We talked for a while, trying to figure out the why’s of it all, but…

Our two older boys are adopted from Haiti, and the story of how God orchestrated that whole thing is incredible.   My amazing sons were two and three when they came home, full of wonder and questions and boatloads of energy.  My daughter was almost two at the time, making us a family of five overnight.  Three to five…

Life moves, doesn’t it? My sweet girl moves into double digits this weekend.  She has been anticipating turning 10 for years because when she was little, I made up this completely arbitrary number that she had to wait til 10 to get her ears pierced.  Because when your only daughter is all the sweetness of 4 she…

Today is my anniversary. Fourteen years with my amazing man and we are celebrating our anniversary with leftover soup, football practice, reading logs and homework. And I wouldn’t trade it for the whole wide world. Except the reading logs. Totally trade them. My wedding day was perfection, but the best part (other than the husband)…

We have made it!   We’ve made it to the end of our fourth and final week in our summer series. I am so thankful for each of you that has been here with us, so many women from all around the world, taking time this summer to soak in His amazing Gift of Grace. I…

So, recently a friend of mine was at home with her children playing in the front yard, when an unexpected visitor arrived. A salesman pulled into the driveway wanting to sell her family some meat.  He began talking with her kids, and then approached her front door, where she immediately greeted him with a “No, thank you”…

Thursday I had the amazing privilege of meeting up with some phenomenal women.   I am on the city team for an upcoming event here in July, an event that will bring in Living Proof Live with Beth Moore, as well as thousands of women.  I adore Beth Moore (could totally be a groupie if pressed), and…