Why a blog?

I am retired and a mom of 3, 6 grandchildren and a wife to my husband for 45 years.

I grew up in the church and during an exciting time in our history. I saw lives changed and miracles. Now go ahead 45 years and I began to wonder if it was all a dream or if those things still existed.

I worked a job for 30 years and one day was walked out the back door. I have had many trials as a mom, wife, grandma and finally a great grandma. I turned my back on God early in my marriage and went through some ugly things. I had a praying mom and God gave me back some things I had lost. However, I never realized I was still hurt inside. It didn’t really hit me until my father died and a few short months later I was walked out the back door at my 30 year job. I was grieving and had been for 30+ years.

Now know this. God always had me, I didn’t always have God. I have seen and been through a lot of hurt and grief. I have friends who have lost a child to a senseless shooting. I have had drugs and alcohol destroy things that mattered the most to me. I have this little cloud of gloom over me.

Then I started looking for my JOY back. I started looking for my laughter to return. You see I had returned to God just a couple of years after I walked away. I knew in my heart God was the answer. I will tell you I saw God work in lives and heal people. I saw marriages put back together. I felt the presence of God, I heard his voice in my ear. Yet some of the things I longed and prayed for never seemed to be answered for me. I could pray over people and I could speak life over them, yet I seemed to always see what I didn’t have, what prayers were not answered. One friend called me the crying prophet Jeremiah. I am and have been known for my weeping. Yet I wanted to be known for JOY.

So why this blog? Because I believe there are lots of people out there who see others get their joy, their children made whole, their friends marriages made whole and they have done all they know to do and God still is quiet.

If that is you, let’s take this journey together. Because you see I TRULY believe the Bible and I believe every word of it. I believe that when God said ALL things are possible for those who believe, He was talking about me. If he was talking about me, He was also talking about YOU.

Are you ready? Let’s get started.