It feels like it was just two months ago, not 20 years ago, that she left the aching void. The mother void. And if Trina Hammack’s theories about 20 year cycles of emotional trauma happening in an individual are true, my story might just back her claims. How is it that the very same uncommon […]

A Ministry Update Due to numerous factors, and after many hours of prayer and discerning the Lord’s direction, we, plus the elders of Perimeter Church, decided to move Shalom City Church into a season of pausing, praying, and (hopefully) planning the next season of house church development, discipleship and outreach. Can ministry mean more than […]

This post, first scribbled out in journal (in October, when this sunset picture was taken!) was ready to be posted last year, but just as these ponderings speak to the concept of images of what we expect life to be like verses what life is, one could not anticipate the turn of events that would […]

“You know you’re beautiful, right?” He whispered to me the morning after my 35th birthday, while my body still lay half-paralyzed from the exhaustion of the past week….a late night stay in the ER with my sister-in-law who was enduring painful appendicitis, two days of homeschool co-ops, one of which I taught at, late night […]

It came just a week after I posted my parenting and ministry battle cry…a self-reminder to stay faithful in planting the seeds. The news of fruit. fruitfulness in praying for neighbors. fruitfulness of continuing to host Shalom Nights each week to have a meal, worship and study Scripture together. fruitfulness in the simple act of […]

We ran into Danny’s former mentor, and he says, “Wait. I thought you were really sick. How are you doing?” Oops. Everyone got the update on Danny’s Lyme Disease Diagnosis, but we forgot to report the answer to prayer. Time for an Iverson Update! (The main praises and prayer requests are in bold) Lyme Disease […]

Ms. Cora from down the street gave it to me two years ago. My eighty-six year old gardening neighbor, the one that said, “I hear the gunshots, but even though I live here alone, I’m not scared. I know the Lord is with me. ” She has not been jaded over the past 30 years […]