My Journal

If you want to get a reaction in the culture today, make a statement about gender distinction - in dress, roles or behavior. Then, step back and get a firm grip on your beliefs for they are going to be challenged. Even many Christians today are uncomfortable...

It's 2014.  I want to let God "write my story" as Steve Saint says. This year, I desire that to maintain a deeper surrender and let His grace be my strength. As the kids head back to school, my oldest daughter back to her college campus and I return to work in...

I have a rare day off this Veteran's Day. I have been anticipating it for a while. Working outside my home is a relatively new experience for me; it's only been in the past two years that I have traded my days in the house for time spent in tutoring, housecleaning and...

November is a special month in our family - two special girls were born in this beautiful season of the year. Last week, we celebrated significant milestones in their growth. Kaley, my youngest, reached the age of 10!Autumn, my second-born, turned 16!What...

 Did your child just go off to college?  I share what God is teaching me about decreasing in my motherhood role in my article for Today's Christian Woman available here.

Like all wives, I have the power to build up or destroy my husband.  I share what I learned about having “A Hammer in My Hands” in my @Today’s Christian Woman article published here.

The runners-up of the Create Romance Short Story Content were featured in the September/October edition of Family Fiction Magazine.  "The Day MacBeth Escaped" was one of the runner-up entries.  Read the interview about the story's origin here on page 18.

Open HandsEager, anxious, untested hands,these were mine that day in May.Hardly believing you were finally here,giddy with excitement, trembling lest harm come to you,Determined to protect you at any cost. I held you in my hands and closed them...

I'm sitting at my laptop in the spare room (oh, that sounds "Narnia-ish") which is a combination office, bedroom, practice room and storage space containing items my daughter is collecting for her first year at college. It's a nice room, although there is no bed...

 One of the saddest things about sin is that it robs you of a sense of delight in life. Oh, there are pleasures in sin but they are the violent, fleeting kind, not the lasting fulfillment of real joy. Sin tickles the imagination but doesn't deliver the...