Bringing Church to the Broken
Last Tuesday while waiting to pick up my nearly 15 year old from High School, I received a text. Hey Dana...we have a child in need of placement... what are your thoughts on a newborn? I had just become licensed to be a foster mom the Friday before. God had placed it on my heart [...]
New Book Coming Soon!!! "There was an emptiness that sourced the depths of my broken. It had started long before I could control the breaking, years before I knew I was being broken. Yes, I knew right from wrong, was raised to do better, but I was a young girl trying to fill a void, [...]
The terrible twos, the fanatic fours, and the many other terms of endearment that parents across the world have come to coin the various facets of raising children. It is an amazing, terrifying, exhausting, and beautiful struggle, absent of any handbook, courtesy of trial and error. Because of this, we are bound to measure our [...]
No, this can’t possibly be what you are calling me to do…I mean God, are you sure? Maybe I am misunderstanding, this can’t be right. I need to pray on this more. I was sure that I was completely off the mark on this one. I found myself going onto the website, researching information, then [...]
When I scroll through my newsfeed I become inundated with exhaustion. I consider myself more of a red-letter Christian, focused on reflecting who Jesus has called me to be, studying His truth, building my relationship with Him and trying to forget everything that religion has fed me. I am friends with many believers, yet I am confused…where did [...]
Heels, check. Coffee, check. Lunch for the day, check. Scream at the kids for the seventh time this morning because this time they are fighting over the last granola bar, or literally just looking at the other, or was it breathing, yes, I think my twelve-year-old was flipping out because his seven-year-old sister was breathing [...]
I hope everyone had a great summer full of sunshine, laughter, great memories, afternoon naps, and that incredible summer breeze! I had a little bit of all of those things and some much needed restoration and refueling as well as time to venture into a new beginning! - Dana I have been working on a new [...]
