Homeschool Recap 2017
I guess yesterday was our last school day of the year. It was supposed to be Wednesday but due to family sickness we bumped it back! The kids have been anxious to have a last day and with a big vacation coming up this seems logical. I see the value in marking an end to […]
Being the people we are raising our kids to be-Trying New Things
I love my daughter. I love all 3 of my daughters. I love my son too, just in case he’s reading this, (he’s not…he’s five). Our oldest daughter is 7 and she is smart, determined, and loves to read. She takes leadership of many things, siblings included, and she is a perfectionist, which is a […]
Thoughts on Marriage Conflict
It happened again. An argument. Even as I sit and write I cannot remember what the argument was about. In all likelihood the argument was a direct result of something one of us said that the other chose to take in the worst possible light; the assumed detection of a voice inflection that changed a […]
Marriage 12 plus years in
It’s funny how after 12 plus years of marriage I can still feel “new” at this whole wife thing. I mean, how long do you have to live in a role to have it figured out? One would think twelve years is long enough to work out all the kinks. Why is grace so hard […]
You wont be seven forever
I took you out last night, Daddy Daughter Date. You were so excited. You looked so pretty. When your brother looked at you in your blue dress, midnight, the color I remember half moon lake where I grew up, he said, “You look like a women!” his cheeks blushing. The necklace was made with your […]
Sweet Spots
Yes… I do post lots of pictures of the best moments of my day. Why? Because I think we need that reminder sometime. Real life in my house is always messy, lots of sibling fights, short remarks I make to my husband after a long day with the kids. Real life is me trying to […]
Lessons from failure
This post is the 3rd in a three part series on my Leadership Failures in Church Planting. The first two posts can be viewed, here and here. As I said in part 1, worse than failure is the failure to learn from failure, and learn plenty I did. Below are a few things I learned […]
Choosing what is real
As I sit in a coffee shop I’m pondering authenticity. In a world where fake is everywhere, it can be difficult to decipher what is real.This coffee shop doesn’t mess around. My plate came out with bread that went through a slow process of refinement by the hands of people I can see as I […]
Leadership failures in Church Planting (part 2)
Earlier this week I posted the first of two parts in Leadership Failures in Planting. You can read that post here. Today I want to continue by giving you the other six reasons our plant failed from a leadership perspective. I launched us without enough preparation While our core group had been meeting for several months […]
Leadership failures in Church Planting (part 1)
It has taken me five years to write this. It has taken me five years to come to a place healthy enough to admit without qualification, I failed. Why, without qualification? From the very day after we closed De Soto Community Church, the first and only church I have planted; the first church I literally […]