I love my kids and the way we love each other. It’s not perfect, but it’s real, and one thing we all care about is where each other is during the night, so we talk through the porch light, which speaks louder than words. Continue reading
Life Transformations
You Are Beautiful
“You are beautiful:” those are the words I heard over and over again last night. As I was flagging at Straight Up Worship, Krissi came up and told me how beautiful I was. She just kept saying, “You are beautiful” and wasn’t quite sure why those were the only words she could say. I began to cry and told her, “Because those are the words I need to hear the most,” and God knew that, and even with all those words of beauty spoken over me, this morning, I saw myself as ugly.
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The Makeup of a Smile
At Kyle’s graduation, I snapped these photos of Carolyn. I love the difference a smile makes and showed her what her eyes looked like with and without a smile. It reminded me of the Padres game I went to with Nathan the other night. Let me explain. Continue reading
The Direction of the Road
Most of you know that my oldest son graduated yesterday. This will be written through many tears because I’m already crying. I wish you KNEW all of me, so you could KNOW how all of this affects me, but I know I won’t give you “everything” on this one because so much of it is too personal, too private, too…meant for heaven only, but I will share with you a glimpse of the gratitude of my heart. Continue reading
A Mother’s Real Day
What if you weren’t brought up with God?
What if your spirit, soul, and body found it’s way through the dark?
What if you were accused of abusing your child, and out of that birthed divorce, all rights to your son taken away: his location, his voice, his heart? Continue reading
Time to Create
I wonder if God waits for us to make the time for Him to fully move through us, to play with our imagination, to make His reality of heaven come to life here on earth. On the second day of my new job, I designed a new flag, and it’s absolutely gorgeous! And wouldn’t you know it: I argued with God about it. Continue reading
Revelation of the Zipper Thingy
For a while now, I’ve noticed how I’ve seemed to be given or buy shirts that were sewn wrong because they fit crooked on me. Well, it turns out the sewing was right, “I” was the one that was crooked…literally. Continue reading
Beauty from Ashes
Yesterday was my first official day of working for myself, and guess what I did? I went for a hike, worked on flags, and went to a Padres game: three things I wouldn’t’ve been able to do at my old job…oh, and I drove through traffic, but that was a perk at my old job every day, and believe it or not, the traffic was amazing.
As I was bumper to bumper on the highway, Continue reading
Christmas in June
Do you remember, as a kid growing up, waking up on Christmas morning and being INSTANTLY filled with excitement?! I just woke up like that, and I have a feeling…every day is going to feel like Christmas. When I turned off my alarm (which is Nathan’s giggle), my first thought was, “Thank You, God! I get to work from home! I get to make flags!,” and I was so excited! It felt like Christmas morning. This whole weekend felt different.
Worship Flags and Infinity Scarfs 