Over the last several months, I have been struggling a lot with negative self thoughts, always beating myself up, never feeling like I was good enough personally, professionally or spiritually in any way. I felt like I had to strive for love from God and...
They say hindsight is 20/20, and it wasn’t until the end of the story that I saw how my pain was a physical manifestation of my hurting heart. My husband and I had passed the two year mark of the start of our adoption journey....
Moms in the Making Conference 2023 was a life-changing encounter with Jesus. My heart is beyond full. The word for my birthday this year was joy and the conference theme was "Shout For Joy." And that’s exactly what my heart feels after this weekend: joy restored....
My husband and I decided to start trying for a baby December 2015. I naively thought we would get pregnant right away, like most of our friends. That wasn't the case though. At first, my doctor wasn't too concerned, but after a while, she suggested testing...
This a story about the Goodness of God. The past 5+ years of trying to grow our family were nothing we could have expected. We experienced disappointments, set backs, odd complications, unexpected outcomes, losses, fear, anxiety, and deep grief. We saw lots of doctors and...
At the Moms in the Making Leader Retreat, I experienced several intimate encounters of the Holy Spirit, and I’m still in awe of these beautiful moments! On Friday night, my friends and I were talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Chariti (one of the...
I want to give God ALL the glory for every bit of goodness I experienced recently at the Moms in the Making Leaders Retreat! I joined 60+ women at the top of the mountain to worship God, to give praise for what He’s done & will...
There is nothing worse than feeling alone and feeling like no one understands you. In March of 2023, I felt ready to move forward and start the process again with IVF. However, that door was closed and I felt once again alone. I started looking for a...
Prior to attending my very first MITM conference in 2023, I was broken, hurting, filled with doubt and convinced that no keynote speaker was going to fix that. I had just experienced my third miscarriage one week before and was overwhelmed by the grief and...
At the end of 2021, I asked God if He had a word for us for the new year. He told me "jubilee." Naturally, I thought that had to do with fertility. This year, our seventh walking through infertility, turned out to be the hardest. We...