About

Nearly 20 years ago, I was working as an editor for Discipleship Journal at NavPress in Colorado Springs. I was dedicated, faithful in church, committed to ministry. And nearing burnout.

I knew all the stuff. I knew that God loved me, that Jesus rescued me, and that the Holy Spirit indwelled me. I knew how to study and teach the Bible. I had worked for parachurch ministries and been on church staff. I’d even experienced God’s active presence and heard His voice. But my soul was going dry and I feared for it, wondering if I would need to quit my job so my soul could live.

Instead, God found me and introduced me to modern and ancient mentors. I began to taste what it was like to live with His active, interfering, kind, brilliant, challenging, comforting, and light-filled presence. I had known life that was for God and about God. Now I was learning life with God.

Since that time, I have discovered what it’s like to live in conversation with a God who makes Himself known and is also unfathomable. Who invite us to love Him and to talk with Him. To wrestle, relax, worship, share, and question. Who would prefer we trust Him enough to stay close and argue with Him. Who always accepts me and never lets me win.

This is the God to whom we consecrate our lives, whose Kingdom we long for, whose Spirit changes our lives and gifts us for His calling, and who rests us with His loving presence.

It’s my joy to open up this life to others . . .

to sit with them as they grieve in the midst of it, to listen to them as they wrestle in it, to rejoice with them as they find satisfaction, and to challenge them as they go deep.