Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your favorite online retailer! Oh Mercy friends!!! The time has come!  After nearly 2 years in the making, my very first book, Curious Faith: Rediscovering Hope in the God of Possibility is here! I was telling a friend the other day that I truly am just so proud of this book.  When I look at my life and I have to answer to … [Read more...]

I screamed at my son today. And when I say screamed, what I really mean is that I lost my ever loving mind and turned into what seems to me to be a crazy person.  What I mean is that this tension that I let build from some pretty heavy other things I've been digesting this week basically just hit a tipping point, a final straw, the end of the line, or whatever other pithy … [Read more...]

I don't even think "title-er" is a real word.  But whatever.  I recently learned on the style sheet for my book (it's a few pages where they record your friends' names correctly, the places you mention, and terms and phrases that you use, so that a proofreader knows to take care a not remove or change those things)  that apparently I make up words because "author coinage" was … [Read more...]

I spend lots of my time focusing on equipping and training women to use their voices for the Kingdom of God in my job at Allume.  It's a privilege to see women steward their resources and abilities to share the message of Jesus.  But primarily, Allume rounds up a group of women ranging in ages from about 25-60.  Not to say that there aren't younger voices present, but it's just … [Read more...]

Re-entry from a life-changing trip can be hard. Hard... because the moment I walk through my door, my real life hat with all its responsibilities sits firmly on my head again. Carpools, dinner, kissing boo boos, parenting, and decision making…they don’t wait for jet lag to be gone to come flooding back over me. It’s a flinging back into reality with little to no time for … [Read more...]

I wrote the following before we left Africa.  Internet was spotty when we got back to the Sole Hope House from the Nile River Camp so I ran out of time to post, but I wanted to leave Uganda with these parting thoughts... to leave you with these thoughts... I'm beyond grateful that you have journeyed with my the past couple of weeks as the eyes of my heart have been opened to … [Read more...]

Last year when I got back from travel in a 3rd world country, someone asked me what I wanted to do differently once I was home.  I thought for awhile and said,“I’m not really sure what I want to do differently… I think I just am different."I’m not charting an obvious action plan right now of what I think I need to do when I get home in less than a week.  Any list I’d craft … [Read more...]

I made it to Uganda!  And let me tell you that it was nothing short of a miracle to get a new passport and then onto a flight that only had 1 seat left.  Moment after moment, I saw the faithfulness of God hovering over every step to get me here. I have to believe that with that much standing in my way, trying to keep my feet from walking this red dirt, God must have … [Read more...]