about… me [updated 5_14_12]

well, lets give you the run down… just in case someone wanders by to read my ramblings who doesn’t know me already.

in december of 2008 i began a journey that i do not understand. it is a journey that i was thrust into, and it was one of the most painful seasons of my life. this journey has proven to me that my God is truly everything i believe that he is, and that my faith is as strong as i expected that it was. the word “hurt” can not even begin to describe anguish of my heart, body, mind, and soul through the early months of this journey and even now. i thank God for the Comforter.

for sandy and myself the past few years have been a very difficult season of life.  though we are both very child centered people, and despite our deep longing for children of our own, we have been unable to welcome a child into our life.  through months of hopes and disappointments, diagnoses and treatment plans, pills and patches and injections, surgeries, procedures, much anguish and suffering of pain, through confusion and complete lack of understanding, through years of prayers without answers of ‘yes’, we have battled to continue to believe that our God would one day bless us with children.  and this summer we will hold his ‘yes’.  this summer we will see the one that we have been praying for for years.  this summer we will move from those who ache to those who rejoice!

33 years on this planet, i am married to the love of my life – and i may not tell her that often enough. we live in sherwood, arkansas with our weimaraner/chocolate lab mix, stinker. we wake up every morning in our beautiful home thankful to God for the blessings in our lives. and then i scamper off to a ministry that i love, while sandy’s ministry and her work with arkansas state university childhood services allows her the blessing of working with the very young, laying a foundation for great lives to come.

‘people oriented’ would nicely describe our work as we both wade through most days at least hip deep in people… especially little people for her, and that makes me smile. our faith is everything to us. it has given us a place to land when we trip and fall and a place to stand when it seems that everything else is slipping away. there is no greater blessing than knowing and being known by the creator of all.

we love to laugh, play, eat, and read children’s books aloud to each other in the children’s section of our local bookstore = free date.

thanks for stopping by.