My Journey Through Life

For three years now I hear the Lord's gentle voice telling me to sing and to sing for Him. So I have and it's been wonderful. This encouraged a deeper desire to get better at playing the guitar and piano, or trying to for that matter. I am by no means great at them but I try nonetheless! I guess the point of this post is that after playing the guitar today and singing I continued to remember my best friend of eleven years telling me to share my voice with others because they would be encourag...

September 2012:

It was that moment when everything seemed to pause for a few seconds. I momentarily wondered if my trainer, Dr. Larry Quade, just said what I though he said. All I remember was his brief pause, body turning around and eyes casually looking at everyone then stopping at me. He voluntarily interrupted his lecture to say this: “the reason we do this is so that we can communicate with children where they are at developmentally.” 

I was in shock. For this was not ...

Things were taking shape. My belongings were scattered in many but organized piles around my room. Pausing for a moment I looked around; I recounted fond memories of my time at YWAM Ozarks. Some fully packed boxes held gifts and journals from the few years I lived there. Most often though, the three years felt like several lifetimes. Traveling abroad months at a time, going through and working with Discipleship training schools take you beyond the normal niceties and give you opportunities to...

It was an Applebees kind of night with friends and fruity drinks. I being 20 at the time could not drink, thus I was the designated driver. Joy and laughter spilled over in my friend's Suburban as we drove under the star blanketed sky, down the backroads of Arkansas.

"A few nights ago I had a crazy prophetic dream. It was weird but so clear." I told my girlfriends. "My students mom along with my director Barb had a very important message for me. 'One', Michaels mom said, was that major change ...

I leaned my head against the plane window. It was dark out; I had caught the red eye flight to London. It was December of 2011 and so many things wurled through my mind.

That's so odd Lord. How can it be so similar? Lord, she's missing the point! Everything we believe is almost the same…her heart obviously desires to serve you, the real God of this Earth! The dissecting of our conversation continued. And then transitioned into, "Lord? I feel as if this season of my life is coming to an end. ...

Somewhere along the way the desire to teach children grew in my heart. "But when was that seed planted?"I have often wondered. I remember my Great Aunt Linda, who was a teacher herself, giving me a brief case with worksheets one Christmas. Boy, I loved that. I even began a school for my stuffed animals and dolls using those worksheets!

As the seasons of my life changed so did my desires. Becoming a wife and mother always ranked my greatest desire yet beyond that I had no idea what I wanted to ...