Not What I Planned

If you live on Planet Earth like the rest of us, your New Years Resolutions and best-made plans may seem to be fluttering away in the wind. What were your personal goals and aspirations for the last twelve months? Here's a list of mine...

Life Past Murder, Suicide, & Job Loss

July is a difficult time for our family. At times, the stinging twinge of grief hits us again out of nowhere. It takes us back to that phone call in 2014 that caused me to fall to the floor, wailing in tears. Our oldest son was dead -- and by his own doing. The grief...

From Murder to a Mission: Purpose Past the Pain

Five years ago, I wrote the blog post below, "Sheerah: Grieving Woman, Builder of Cities". God laid on my heart to share it again, with a couple of updates. I pray it encourages you today. I shared this Bible account with many women in Africa in February 2016, knowing they would identify with a woman...

Sheerah: Grieving Woman… Builder of Cities

I was reading last week in a perhaps not-so-frequented passage of scripture in 1st Chronicles chapter 7, and was literally stopped in my tracks at one particular verse. In the plethora of hard-to-pronounce names of men, grandsons and great-grandsons, an unexpected name in a paradoxical moment of history was revealed. Describing the lineage of Ephraim, who was one of the...