I wrote and published a children’s book. Writing that sentence still seems like the dream it was seven years ago and not the reality it is today. However, as I held Rise and Shine and read it aloud, I realized just how many gifts this book represents. Gifts that are for myself but hopefully […]
About the time my oldest hit 5th grade, I started freaking out. The baby thing and young kid thing didn’t bother me at all. I felt I had that down before I ever got started. Maybe it was all the early childhood education courses in my undergrad or just the teacher in me. But something […]
Sunday was Easter. On Easter, I participated with around 5000 other at my church site alone in the worship of a God who is alive. It’s Tuesday. The message of Easter hasn’t changed. The days change, but the message doesn’t. Do the people I come in contact with know that? Oh, they most likely know I’m […]
I have to admit the first two times I heard it, I was really turned off. We’ve been to Mexico to build houses with our church three times now. This last trip in February, we heard the same message from the same man for the third time. For some reason though, this time, instead of […]
“You really should stay home and rest.” This was the response from several family and friends when they found out that we were going to Mexico with a teen that had been diagnosed with pneumonia just five days before leaving, and when my youngest came home from school just hours before departing with a fever […]
What seemed like million eyes were staring at me as I walked up on stage, grabbed my guitar, and found a comfortable spot between the stool and the microphone. The nervous flutters in my stomach had settled in and somehow I had to get through this song. The lights dimmed. After I finished singing I […]
