Planned Adversity

My youngest son is a big hockey fan and loves to play as well.  Last weekend he finished four days of very intense tryouts.  Initially there were only four coaches evaluating and everyday more and more coaches would arrive to evaluate the players, until the...

Don’t Look Back

My 11 yr. old son Tyler has huge dreams when it comes to playing hockey!  Recently, he had 4 days of tryouts which involved a couple rounds of cuts.  He excitedly came home from Day 1 and said “I think I did awesome!”   As a parent, I love the...

A Quick Lesson From a Boy That Asked

My 14 yr. old son in his own words would describe himself as “cool with a little side of nerd,” as opposed to a “nerd with a little side of cool!” Lol!  He loves technology, computer coding, robotics, 3D printers, the periodic table of elements and other things...

3 Dangers of Assuming Intent

There are so many times when I’m mentoring someone that I will hear the phrase “I know exactly why they did….” or “I know (this person) was talking about me, because I could just tell…” or “I know what she was thinking…she was thinking I was going to do…I could tell...

Adding God’s Word to Every Gift This Christmas

As I prepare to celebrate Christmas with our family this year I began asking myself the question “how can I make our Christmas more about Jesus?”  Then it occurred to me…I plan to pray over each gift and find a bible verse that has something to do with the gift...

No Magic, Just Mercy

The other day while cleaning out an old TV cabinet my kids stumbled on a “Journal and Playbook” that I was assigned to fill out for one of my college courses at the University of Colorado. As we laughed and perused through the pages something significant jumped out to...

A Time is Coming? Or Has it Arrived?

Recently I stumbled across a blogger and his followers that were a group of “recovering Christians” so to speak.  They used to believe and now they don’t.   As I began to do what Jesus has commanded by teaching what the Scriptures say in love, the feedback I...

The 1, 2, 3 of Equipping Your Children

Recently I’ve been reading a lot about parenting, marriage and Godly relationships as well as mentoring women on this issue.  As parents we can be prone to enabling our children without even being aware of it!  Daily we are given opportunities to equip our...