In 2001, Dad celebrated 25 years of pastoring Grace Family Fellowship. We had a big celebration for them and gifted them with an all expense paid trip to New England. For several reasons, they didn’t take the trip like they planned that year and the following year, my mother’s dad passed away and she wasn’t […]

There is nothing we can do to make God love us more. There is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Phillip Yancey This morning in the shower the Lord and I had a heart to heart. I was telling Him that in evaluating my life thus far, I wasn’t loving Him […]

I was so nervous all morning but when I went to pick up Ty the director met me and told me that if I wouldn’t have told her anything about Ty they would have NEVER known! Yippppeeeeee! He did so great and seemed to really have fun! Thank you Jesus and thanks to everyone that […]

A few months ago I wrote a blog post called “Calling All Sympathetic Hearts”. In that post, I was venting about the trials of being a special needs parent. One of the contributing factors that I didn’t mention in that post was a phone call I had with the children’s leader at BSF. BSF (Bible […]

Five years ago today I was sound asleep with my four year old little precious boy Tanner when I was awakened by a phone call. Dad called to tell me our nation was under attack. I will never forget him saying “The world as we know it has just changed.” It was such a sobering […]