About

I’m so glad you’re here! I hope you find this a safe place to explore your faith and grow emotionally and spiritually.

I’m a 50ish born again Christian, currently living in Southern California. I’ve been married to Manny since 1995, with whom I have two children at home (and one who’s left the nest). I enjoy reading, writing, cooking, and creating things. God speaks to me through nature, so I love to make time to be out in His creation. Oil painting is my favorite hobby, and I’m getting pretty good at it!

How did I meet Jesus? My first experience in His presence came at a youth retreat on Catalina Island in 1986. I couldn’t have been more broken when I witnessed what God’s love was like that weekend. I was a teenage girl completely controlled by fear and shame. God has been transforming me and freeing me ever since, and I can’t help but write and speak about it so that others can experience the life-changing grace of God too.

My purpose is to connect women to the heart of God with Biblical insight, authenticity, and grace.

>>Connect to the Heart of God

I feel compelled to invite people to meet Jesus face to face and develop a deeper trust in Him. I do my best to allow the Lord to speak through me, calling people to deeper spiritual living with powerful, practical truth for the challenging Christian life today.

The purpose of my devotional books is to usher the reader into God’s presence for a few minutes each day. I believe that every Christian is able to hear from God. It may look different for each of us, but God is a Master Communicator and He is using everything to share His heart with us: the Bible, music, nature, people, history, movies, circumstances, books, art, the sunset sky, and more. We only have to slow down for a minute and open our hearts and minds to His message.

>>Biblical Insight

My books, blog, and podcast are a means to share what God has shown me in the pages of the Bible and taught me to practice in the valleys and mountaintops of this life. I love to study the Bible, examine the culture and history, explore nuances in the original language of the text, and listen for the Spirit of God to apply its wisdom to our lives. Over the years, God has impressed on me the importance of considering scripture from His perspective, and the only way to do that is by sitting with Him. I promise to sit with Him before writing any books, blog posts, or teachings.

>>Authenticity

Early in my Christian life, I was extraordinarily affected by the transparency of a Christian leader that God placed in my life when I faced a crisis of sin and faith. At that time, I made an oath to always be “real” with others. Today, the Spirit of God continues to require my unguarded transparency, often leading me to share personal experiences of emotional healing and spiritual growth in my books, blog posts, and teachings. I share from my 50ish years of failures, successes, learning experiences, God moments, and hard-earned wisdom.

>>Radical Grace

As God has transformed me over the years, it has become more and more apparent to me that shame was the primary driving force in my life from childhood through my early 40’s. It has taken some deep diving into the core beliefs that I developed about myself and God as a young person to undo the foundation of shame in my life. The radical grace of God is slowly (but surely) evicting the perfectionist, controlling, rule-following, shame storm, all-or-nothing thinking that choked out my life for so long. I spent too many years reading the Word of God through the lens of judgment and shame. Today, I read and teach through the lens of abundant grace. May you catch and embrace an abundant dose of that grace.

Blessings,