I would love to have tea with you and tell you why I am a coach!

When I decided to get my coaching certification part of me was scared.  Was this direction that God was leading me?  Could I succeed in this space?

That night I had a dream.  I was back in our seminary apartment.  I was in our living room and with the sun streaming through our beautiful front windows.  It felt good to be in here.  Then my eye noticed the walls.  Instead of the neutral color apartment paint, I noticed the wallpaper that covered the walls. 

When I awoke from the dream, I asked God about it.  I felt God was saying to me that now was the time to give away all the things that He has been pouring into me for the last twenty years.

I love to write!  Therefore, as I have walked through the years of parenting, and children’s ministry I have recorded all of the wisdom that God has given to me in these moments.  I also wrote down what I noticed about...

As I thought about what picture I wanted for the banner on my website, I remembered the family picture we took at the base of the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park.

Nothing can prepare you for the enormity of those trees!  They tower into the sky with a magnificence that makes you feel small. They have been growing generation after generation.  Their thick bark has allowed them to withstand fire, pestilence and drought.

They are to me a living picture of the generations that have gone before us - men and women who have fought the good fight of faith and lived well.  Take some time to read Hebrews chapter 11 in the Bible, and ask yourself, "Which one of these people is an inspiration to me?"

Is it Noah, who received instructions from God that did not make any sense, yet he followed God’s word to the letter?

Is it Sarah, who believed God for the impossible?

Or maybe it is… Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, ... David, Samuel or...