It was about 13 years ago that my whole life changed! It was sometime in October 1997 but I have never been the same. I wish that I could tell you that it was religion that changed me because somehow somewhere religion makes sense, it is a list of rules and regulations and you follow them and you go to heaven or wherever that certain religion takes you. But I always ran from religion because I thought it was too rigid. My encounter with Jesus was so different. This encounter with Jesus was so different. I had just did the most horrible thing I could ever do and He met me right where I was. How did I know that He was there? I felt Him there. When I was 18 years old I heard about Jesus and I heard about the end of the world and I accepted Him into my life but I didn't invite Him into my life until the day I knew I could not go on without something more. (I have no problem sharing what happened through an email or phone conversation in fact I invite that but it is for the protection of my children that I won't display it on here. When they are old enough to understand they will be filled in!) I was at the darkest time of my life and I felt this overwhelming presence of peace and LOVE that I had never felt before and it was my encounter with Jesus. I had just committed sin and felt the harsh justice of breaking God's heart but I also felt this overwhelming sense of LOVE, God's love. It doesn't make sense just as the way that Jesus died on a cross doesn't make sense if we really disect it and pull it apart. If Jesus was God why did he die such a horrific death and all the other questions that come up? Why do bad things happen to good people? I wish I had the perfect answer for all the questions but I don't. I have faith. I have faith in a God that loves me for who I am not for what the world wants me to be. I have faith in the fact that He gives me breath each day and that in that day I am going to rely on Him to somehow bring Him glory. I have faith that He is going to protect me and my family from this dark world that has evil lurking around every corner and if someone chooses to do evil on one of my loved ones I choose to believe that God is enough to bring me through it! God has laid it on my heart to share what He is doing in my everyday life so that is what this website is about just the everyday walk between a woman and her God, a mom and her God, a wife and her God and a friend and her God. He is amazing! He has me standing in awe of His daily presence in my life, in my husband's life and in my kids life.

Take the time this year to at least ponder the thought of Jesus. If you don't know HIm as Savior at least think about it, seek Him who created you and let Him reveal Himself to you. If you do know Him I encourage you in 2010 to dig deeper into HIs life. Get into the RED LETTERS that are written in the Word and dont let the troubles and circumstances get in the way of Jesus in your life this year!

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would be only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing. If I give everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.

Jeremiah 24:7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.