Last week, after 3 years of intense seminary study and another year of ordination exam study, my incredibly hard-working husband, Danny Iverson, was ordained as an “official” Presbyterian Church of America pastor. As he is now a fifth generation pastor (his dad, granddad, great-granddad, and great great granddad were all pastors), I would say that […]

When Danny and I were first married, we kissed at probably every stoplight…we called it red light romance. Now we can’t even kiss once in a blue moon at a stoplight without comments from the peanut gallery…the crew filling the back seats, and most recently from our three year old, of all people. We were […]

I wake up wanting to be God. or at least king over my little world. I wake up wanting my schedule to go according to my plan. I wake up wanting my children to behave perfectly and fall in line with that plan.  I wake up wanting no interruptions, no change of events, no extra […]

This unexpected child, but perfectly expected and planned by the best Family Planner known to history, has already broken me. over.and.over.and. over. The life-exchanged-for-life that is going on over in this Iverson household, has not been pretty, but in the mess of it all, new life, not just this sixth child’s life, but a life […]

There are many a day as of late that my afternoons are spent in this position, out of sheer exhaustion…   One such afternoon, Benjamin emerges from the extensive imaginative play (thank you, Lord, for my kids having good imaginations!) and starts knocking on my door. I was literally too tired to get up, unlock […]