It was like they had all laid dormant. But then finally growth begins to emerge where simple seeds of prayer had lain buried in the soil of the will of God. You see, I had met Tahra, a Muslim Bangladeshi woman about my age,  last December, while I was trying to coordinate hosting international students […]

10 years. This past week we celebrated 10 years of marriage. A marriage that we embarked on, young, energetic, incredibly in love…and ready to change the world. A marriage that we prayed over-that God would fulfill his promise in Psalm 67 “May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ever since I was sixteen I wanted to go. After this happened, and the Lord literally lifted me out of the miry pit of depression, and gave me a firm place to stand, He put a new song in my mouth… And I wanted to sing it to the ends of the earth. And all […]

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Matthew 16:24 “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. ” John 12:24 I face death […]