We’ve sat in seminars. Visited hotel conference rooms and small group brainstorming sessions. We have been “trained” to be church planters. Don’t get me wrong, these things are good and necessary things, but nothing is quite like the training that trials bring. Since moving to Atlanta, with a vision to plant churches that keep planting […]

I dreamed it. And it scared me. Scared me right into humble submission to every long, hard, fatigued, feeling-sick day. Scared me into waiting patiently.  Scared me into receiving whatever I needed to learn and do in this hard waiting process. It has been a tough 4 1/2 months. More negative emotions, failures, despairing moments, […]

Where’s this blogging girl gone? Well, after a week spell of intense editing and rereading into the late nights, sickness has slammed the family. And slammed the door on the writing momentum. And when your husband, and your kids, and your pregnant self are all horribly sick, violently coughing through night after sleepless night, aching […]

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart….and  your paths will be straight”   Proverbs 3:5-6 There’s nothing that makes my paths more crooked than pregnancy, and the hormones, fatigue and sickness it brings. I plan a course of action, a schedule and an agenda…..and then I don’t have the energy to carry it out. […]

It’s posted right in my windowsill over the sink… The kids and I sing it on the way to school… Its a lifeline and bedrock when every physical thing around me is shifting (or being hauled to the dump) “Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord.  For GREAT is the glory of […]

Isaiah 58:8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Isaiah 58 is a passage we frequently visit, for our own encouragement, and for the encouragement of the various teams […]