I want to share my story and encourage others as we go through life, so I've created a series of videos that I hope speak to your heart.
Sitting on the floor, playing with his toys, my three-year-old makes the fiercest noises as he crashes his cars into each other. The innocence in his voice and the joy that oozes out of him is captivating. He giggles, gets mad, gets over it and moves on with life. Meanwhile, across town there’s a seventeen-year-old young man sitting in his…
Continue readingRound and round she goes, “Look daddy, look! Am I pretty? Do you see me? Watch me twirl daddy…watch.” Her face lights up as she smiles from ear to ear; her eyes twinkle with every turn. With eager anticipation, she waits, “Am I lovely? Am I enough? Do I have what it takes to make you smile?” Her questions go…
Continue readingIn your marriage, you must tell Satan to back the hell up!I want to write about all the feel-good things. I do! But writing is such an intimate space where you filet open some of the hardest topics to spur another person on. Sharing life’s biggest battles can be challenging because it forces the writer to address topics that would…
Continue readingAs I stood in a long line with a sleeping baby in a stroller and waited for my family to get off another exciting ride in Disneyland, my phone rang. I didn’t recognize the number but everything inside of me said, “Answer it!” With 50,000 of my closest friends scurrying about, time was about to stand still for me. Before…
Continue readingEcclesial Disobedience As I sat in the circle, I anxiously awaited the start of the meeting which I hoped would bring healing not only to Nicole and I but to all those that met with us and were under a cloud of hurt which had lingered for the past several months. It was to be the meeting to end all…
Continue readingHave you been there? You know, the place of utter hopelessness… At the beginning of August I found myself in a place I’ve never been, nor do I ever wish to go back. The voices I heard seemed to scream, ‘You aren’t good enough. You aren’t measuring up and you never will.” A place where the pressure in my life…
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